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An interrupter in electrical engineering is a device used to interrupt the flow of a steady direct current for the purpose of converting a steady current into a changing one. Frequently, the interrupter is used in conjunction with an inductor (coil of wire) to produce increased voltages either by a back emf effect or through transformer action.
An interruption is a speech action when one person breaks in to interject while another person is talking.Linguists, social psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists are among the social scientists who have studied and identified patterns of interruption that may differ by gender, social status, race/ethnicity, culture, and political orientation.
An interrupter is a device used to interrupt the flow of a steady direct electrical current. Interrupter or Interrupters may also refer to: Interrupter gear, gear for interrupting the fire of a machine gun on an airplane to enable it to fire through a spinning propeller; USS Interrupter, a Guardian-class radar picket ship renamed USS Tracer
A disfluence or nonfluence is a non-pathological hesitance when speaking, the use of fillers (“like” or “uh”), or the repetition of a word or phrase. This needs to be distinguished from a fluency disorder like stuttering with an interruption of fluency of speech, accompanied by "excessive tension, speaking avoidance, struggle behaviors, and secondary mannerism".
Vacuum interrupter with ceramic housing. In electrical engineering, a vacuum interrupter is a switch which uses electrical contacts in a vacuum. It is the core component of medium-voltage circuit-breakers, generator circuit-breakers, and high-voltage circuit-breakers.
A recent criminal case gave a first glimpse into the city's violence interrupter program. Here's what to know about the interrupters.
Anacolutha are often sentences interrupted midway, where there is a change in the syntactical structure of the sentence and of intended meaning following the interruption. [1] As rhetorical or literary device, anacoluthon may be used to demonstration emotion or the natural patterns of spoken discourse. [2]
A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a key figure in the sprawling corruption scandal at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the city attorney's office to nearly three years in prison.