Usually means: Sudden increase in activity, intensity.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. surge: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. surge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. surge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. surge: Collins English Dictionary
  5. surge: Vocabulary.com
  6. Surge, surge: Wordnik
  7. surge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. surge: Wiktionary
  9. surge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. surge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. surge: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. surge: Dictionary.com
  13. surge (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. surge: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Surge (comics), Surge (disambiguation), Surge (drink), Surge (film), Surge (glacier), Surge (radio station), Surge (soft drink), Surge (wave action), Surge, The Surge (video game), The Surge, The surge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Surge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. surge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. surge: Rhymezone
  19. surge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. surge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. surge: Free Dictionary
  22. surge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. surge: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. surge: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Surge (drink), Surge (soft drink), surge: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SURGE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. surge: CCI Computer
  3. Surge (drink), Surge (soft drink), surge: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Surge (drink), Surge (soft drink), surge: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. SURGE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. surge: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Surge: Urban Dictionary

Tech (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. surge: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  6. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Surge: Data Acquisition
  8. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)
  9. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  10. Surge: Latitude Mexico
  11. SURGE: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A sudden transient rush, flood or increase.
noun:  The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation.
noun:  (electricity) A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current.
noun:  (aviation) A momentary reversal of the airflow through the compressor section of a jet engine due to disruption of the airflow entering the engine's air intake, accompanied by loud banging noises, emission of flame, and temporary loss of thrust.
noun:  (nautical) The swell or heave of the sea (FM 55-501).
noun:  (US, naval, often attributive) A deployment in large numbers at short notice.
noun:  (obsolete) A spring; a fountain.
noun:  The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
verb:  (intransitive) To rush, flood, or increase suddenly.
verb:  To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly.
verb:  (intransitive, aviation, of a jet engine) To experience a momentary reversal of airflow through the compressor section due to disruption of intake airflow.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To slack off a line.

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