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Interrupter

noun

A device for automatically interrupting an electric current.

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... 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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