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Interrupter   Listen
noun
Interrupter  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, interrupts.
2.
(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. (Also spelled interruptor)





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"Interrupter" Quotes from Famous Books



... a power against which it knew that there was neither argument nor resistance. My uncle, however, with Berkeley Craven, Sir John Lade, and a dozen other lords and gentlemen, hurried across to the interrupter of the sport. ...
— Rodney Stone • Arthur Conan Doyle
... rough on Wally," remarked Cash. The witness looked at the interrupter, and tried to make out whether his remark was a compliment or the reverse. He decided that, as he had only three minutes left, he had better defer thinking the ...
— The Cock-House at Fellsgarth • Talbot Baines Reed
... Bonbright's neighbors turned to stare; men all over the hall rose and craned their necks to have a view of the interrupter. ...
— Youth Challenges • Clarence B Kelland
... represents the interior of an apparatus for twenty messages. It consists of a key-board, M, an electro-magnet, B, a clock-work movement, Q, an escapement, s, and an interrupter, F G. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 • Various
... your letter by W.H. Channing in words, though I have said a great deal to you that you have not heard. What an interrupter of conversation is this absence! Neither have I told you of my Vieuxtemps experience, nor shall I close my letter without speaking of Knoop, who by the gods' favor concerts to-night. Your letter by W.H. Channing crystallized a resolution which has been quiet in me for the winter, ...
— Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis • G. W. Curtis, ed. George Willis Cooke


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