Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any device for opening or closing an electrical circuit; a circuit-breaker.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Elec.) A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.
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Examples
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In the former case the break-circuit worked a relay which interrupted the current from three
Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light Made at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis Albert A. Michelson 1891
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The time was given either by a sidereal break-circuit chronometer or by the break-circuit pendulum of a mean-time clock.
Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light Made at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis Albert A. Michelson 1891
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The fork was wedged into a wooden support, and the platinum tip allowed to rest on lampblacked paper, wound about a metal cylinder, which was rotated by hand Time was given by a break-circuit clock, the rate of which was ascertained, by comparisons with Western Union time-ball, to be 9.87 seconds.
Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light Made at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis Albert A. Michelson 1891
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A break-circuit will do what it says, no doubt about it.
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