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Electrical contact   /ɪlˈɛktrɪkəl kˈɑntˌækt/   Listen
Electrical contact

noun
1.
Contact that allows current to pass from one conductor to another.





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"Electrical contact" Quotes from Famous Books



... Half an hour later the table was surrounded by the guests. It was a table of baronial proportions, but twenty couples occupied every inch of the space easily. Vance found himself a greater distance than he could have wished from the scene of danger, and of electrical contact. ...
— Black Jack • Max Brand
... to maintain a good electrical contact between the fixed conducting portions of the lamp and the sliding carbons, Mr. Hedges fits to each carbon-holder a little contact piece, F F, hinged to its respective trough at its upper end, and carrying at its lower or free end a somewhat heavy little block of brass grooved ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 • Various
... like a carpenter's level. If the airplane tilts to one side or the other, the mercury will try to keep its level and will immediately flow to the high side of the bore. At each end of this mercury tube there are electrical contact points. As one becomes submerged in the mercury by a tilting of the plane, a connection is made whereby two electro-magnets are energized on that side. One of these magnets closes an exhaust-valve, and the other ...
— Around the World in Ten Days • Chelsea Curtis Fraser
... into a ratchet wheel; this ratchet wheel is made to revolve by the belt, and whenever it is impeded or stopped in its course it acts upon mechanism which throws the driving belt of the machine upon the loose pulley. Electrical contact is made by a very simple contrivance, and these attachments are only to act in the case of a breakage of ...
— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various
... strand of roving, the armature drops into a ratchet wheel; this ratchet wheel is made to revolve by the belt, and whenever it is impeded or stopped in its course it acts upon mechanism which throws the driving belt of the machine upon the loose pulley. Electrical contact is made by a very simple contrivance, and these attachments are only to act in the case of a breakage ...
— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various


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