interrupter

or in·ter·rup·tor

[ in-tuh-ruhp-ter ]
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noun
  1. a person or thing that interrupts.

  2. Electricity. a device for interrupting or periodically opening and closing a circuit, as in a doorbell.

Origin of interrupter

1
First recorded in 1505–15; interrupt + -er1

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How to use interrupter in a sentence

  • Impatient and derisive exclamations were hurled at him; men sitting near M'Ginnis shouted back at the interrupters.

    The Black Opal | Katharine Susannah Prichard
  • But 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 Lamballe
  • His feverish, stubborn rhetoric ended by exhausting his interrupters, who were compelled to listen to him.

British Dictionary definitions for interrupter

interrupter

interruptor

/ (ˌɪntəˈrʌptə) /


noun
  1. a person or thing that interrupts

  2. an electromechanical device for opening and closing an electric circuit

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