The series resistor serves to protect the contact from a large surge of current.

That was the largest one-day surge since June 2, 1987, when the yield soared 32 basis points, to 8.93 percent.

The lobe has been interpreted as the remains of a large glacial surge.

The new path is called a short circuit, and it allows a large surge of current to overload the wires.

There was a large surge in horsepower of farm machinery in the 1950s.

Without compensation, a large surge of additional power would be required to complete the travel of the tanks.

But those departures, however high profile, are only part of a larger surge in retirements by police officers this year.

At the end of the 1980s there was a large surge in a number of novel methods for machine translation.

Rheumatologists experienced a large surge of new patients with mysterious symptoms during this period.

But she also says that such requests were part of a much larger surge of genealogical interest.