Interrupters [noun]

A very thin vacuum shutter forms a better interrupter of sound waves than a brick wall two or three feet in thickness.

The interrupter must be Harry Wilbur; nobody else approached door-knockers in so athletic a spirit.

The dual feature consists of the addition to the magneto of a battery interrupter.

This relative timing can be easily adjusted by removing the interrupter and shifting the cam in the direction desired.

This is accomplished by means of an "interrupter" that either vibrates rapidly or "snaps" once at the formation of each spark.

Explain why the interrupter is a necessary part of the induction coil and not of the transformer.

The spring support of the interrupter now draws the latter back to the contact, T, again completing the circuit.

The whole operation is repeated, the interrupter vibrating rapidly continually opening and closing the circuit.

But the Judge also discharges a still more exceptionable office, that of interrupter on the part of the crown.

He generally took his walks by himself, Coleridge being the most frequent interrupter of his solitude.