surges
- 1Plural of surge.
Sudden surges in demand left the store shelves empty within hours.
Engineers installed protectors to guard the equipment against voltage surges.
Note
The plural reaches into every field the singular does: surges in demand, voltage surges in electrical equipment, compressor surges in a jet engine, the surges of a heavy sea. In the engineering senses each surge is a distinct, countable event, a spike or a momentary reversal of airflow, so the plural comes naturally. The American sense of a rapid large-scale deployment often works attributively, with surge standing before another noun.
surges is a form of surge
surge, noun: A sudden, short-lived rush, flood, or increase in something. Full entry
- Forms
- surgesurges plural
- Spelling
- surge → surges: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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