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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that interrupts.
- noun Electronics A device that periodically and automatically opens and closes an electric circuit, producing pulses.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which interrupts. Also
interruptor . - noun Specifically— In electricity, any instrument for interrupting an electrical current, as the automatic arrangement used with the induction-coil.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, interrupts.
- noun (Elec.) 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.
from , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who or that which
interrupts . - noun A
device for opening and closing anelectrical circuit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a device for automatically interrupting an electric current
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