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Sometimes called a snubber. It often consists of a zener diode wired so that some voltage or other cannot exceed the zener voltage. Others use transistors or FETs in more active topologies. The ultimate is a crowbar limiter which simply shorts out a power supply if it exceeds a certain voltage, thus rupturing the supply fuse.

(I sometimes refer to them as Sayonara circuits.)

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