INTERRUPTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interrupter mean? 

• INTERRUPTER (noun)
  The noun INTERRUPTER has 1 sense:

1. a device for automatically interrupting an electric current

  Familiarity information: INTERRUPTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERRUPTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A device for automatically interrupting an electric current

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("interrupter" is a kind of...):

device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)

Derivation:

interrupt (make a break in)

 Context examples 

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, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The interrupter bowed, smiled, stroked his beard, and relapsed into his chair.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Having thus, amid 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 them, their consequent enormous growth.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)