Interrupter

[,intә'rʌptә]

Definition

(noun.) a device for automatically interrupting an electric current.

Editor: Robert--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) One who, or that which, interrupts.

(n.) 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.

Editor: Roxanne