Interrupter

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One that interrupts: an inveterate interrupter of other people's conversations.
  • n. Electronics A device that periodically and automatically opens and closes an electric circuit, producing pulses.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One who or that which interrupts.
  • n. A device for opening and closing an electrical circuit.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who, or that which, interrupts.
  • n. A device for opening and closing an electrical circuit; a vibrating spring or tuning fork, arranged to make and break a circuit at rapidly recurring intervals, by the action of the current itself.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who or that which interrupts. Also interruptor.
  • n. Specifically— In electricity, any instrument for interrupting an electrical current, as the automatic arrangement used with the induction-coil.
  • n. In milit. engin., an electrical device which forms part of a system of apparatus for determining the velocity of projectiles, used in connection with wire targets and chronographs. The passage of the ball or shell through a target serves to interrupt a closed electrical circuit, and thus release the automatic registering mechanism of the chronograph at the instant of passage. Often a number of targets are used, placed at accurately measured and uniform intervals in the path of the projectile, and the registered data serve as a basis for determining the variation of velocity in different parts of the path.
  • n.
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  • n. a device for automatically interrupting an electric current
    • Hypernym
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    device   
    Variant
    interruptor   
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