Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that interrupts.
- noun Electronics A device that periodically and automatically opens and closes an electric circuit, producing pulses.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which interrupts. Also
interruptor . - noun Specifically— In electricity, any instrument for interrupting an electrical current, as the automatic arrangement used with the induction-coil.
- noun In milit. engin., an electrical device which forms part of a system of apparatus for determining the velocity of projectiles, used in connection with wire targets and chronographs. The passage of the ball or shell through a target serves to interrupt a closed electrical circuit, and thus release the automatic registering mechanism of the chronograph at the instant of passage. Often a number of targets are used, placed at accurately measured and uniform intervals in the path of the projectile, and the registered data serve as a basis for determining the variation of velocity in different parts of the path.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, interrupts.
- noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who or that which
interrupts . - noun A
device for opening and closing anelectrical circuit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a device for automatically interrupting an electric current
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Examples
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One of his famous inventions was to devise a synchronization device (known as the interrupter gear) that allowed machine guns to fire directly through the propeller.
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Improving on Garros’ idea, Fokker’s team designed a system known as the interrupter gear that synchronized the action, allowing bullets to pass between the propeller blades without striking them.
April 18, 1915: Aerial Warfare Is About to Make a Quantum Leap 2007
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A government source told The Chronicle Herald the province is going to lower prices at the pumps by using the so-called interrupter clause Tuesday at midnight.
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That said, I did reserve the right to edit out just one word I replaced "interrupter" with "interpreter".
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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That said, I did reserve the right to edit out just one word I replaced "interrupter" with "interpreter".
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We spoke with the aid of an "interrupter" for this seemed to be the function of the translator.
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Improving on Garros’ idea, Fokker’s team designed a system known as the interrupter gear that synchronized the action, allowing bullets to pass between the propeller blades without striking them.
April 18, 1915: Aerial Warfare Is About to Make a Quantum Leap 2007
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That said, I did reserve the right to edit out just one word (I replaced "interrupter" with "interpreter".
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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That said, I did reserve the right to edit out just one word (I replaced "interrupter" with "interpreter".
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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That said, I did reserve the right to edit out just one word (I replaced "interrupter" with "interpreter".
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