interrupter
or in·ter·rup·tor
a person or thing that interrupts.
Electricity. a device for interrupting or periodically opening and closing a circuit, as in a doorbell.
Origin of interrupter
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How to use interrupter in a sentence
Sometimes, even before shots are fired, Interrupters can predict and avert crisis, according to Slutkin.
Using Strategies Reserved for Disease Outbreak, Activists Try to “Cure” Urban Violence | Sarah Kunst | April 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn Chicago, studies show a reduction in shootings and killings in the range of 41-73% across the neighborhoods with Interrupters.
Using Strategies Reserved for Disease Outbreak, Activists Try to “Cure” Urban Violence | Sarah Kunst | April 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“The Interrupters and Hoop Dreams are two of the most amazing documentaries ever,” Martin adds.
‘Undefeated’: The Oscar-Nominated Documentary That Is the Real ‘Friday Night Lights’ | Marlow Stern | February 18, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe interrupters were turbulent, aggressive, out of order, being desperate men fighting for life.
Lectures on the French Revolution | John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton"Those current interrupters are the things which have since become known as transmitters," explained Mr. Hazen.
Ted and the Telephone | Sara Ware Bassett
Impatient and derisive exclamations were hurled at him; men sitting near M'Ginnis shouted back at the interrupters.
The Black Opal | Katharine Susannah PrichardBut I took care to keep my interrupters in parley till a sufficient mob was collected, and then I produced my colours.
The Secret Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, Complete | Madame du Hausset, an "Unknown English Girl" and the Princess LamballeHis feverish, stubborn rhetoric ended by exhausting his interrupters, who were compelled to listen to him.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete | Emile Zola
British Dictionary definitions for interrupter
interruptor
/ (ˌɪntəˈrʌptə) /
a person or thing that interrupts
an electromechanical device for opening and closing an electric circuit
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