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interrupter
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun interrupter has 1 sense
- interrupter(n = noun.artifact) Array - a device for automatically interrupting an electric current; Array is a kind of device
Derived form verb interrupt1
CIDE DICTIONARY
interrupter, n.
- One who, or that which, interrupts. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
interrupter, n. (also interruptor)
1 a person or thing that interrupts.
2 a device for interrupting, esp. an electric circuit.
1 a person or thing that interrupts.
2 a device for interrupting, esp. an electric circuit.
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