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Interrupter

noun

A device for automatically interrupting an electric current.

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"Interrupter" Quotes from Famous Books

... a general titter, played very prettily with his interrupter, the lecturer went back to his picture of the past, the drying of the seas, the emergence of the sand-bank, the sluggish, viscous life which lay upon their margins, the overcrowded lagoons, the tendency of the sea creatures to take refuge upon the mud-flats, the abundance of food awaiting ...

— The Lost World • Arthur Conan Doyle

... I spoke at Birmingham Town Hall, and Chamberlain, who was Mayor, and who was my host, had the whole borough police force present or in reserve, and had every interrupter (and there were several hundred) carried out singly by two policemen, with a Conservative Chief of Police to direct them, after which I delivered an extremely humdrum speech to a very dull assembly. [Footnote: He spoke on the House of Lords.] ...

— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn

... The interrupter reserved himself for future interruption, and Robur resumed: "But does that mean that man is to give up the conquest of the air, and the transformation of the domestic and political manners of the ...

— Rubur the Conqueror • Jules Verne

Words linked to "Interrupter" : interrupt, device