Associations to the word «Interrupter»

Wiktionary

INTERRUPTER, noun. One who or that which interrupts.
INTERRUPTER, noun. A device for opening and closing an electrical circuit.
INTERRUPTER GEAR, noun. A triggering device attached to the machine gun armament of fighter aircraft so that the gun could fire through the arc of a spinning propeller without the bullets striking the blades.

Dictionary definition

INTERRUPTER, noun. A device for automatically interrupting an electric current.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope