Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a device for automatically interrupting an electric current;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Interrupter \In`ter*rupt"er\, n.
1. One who, or that which, interrupts.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Elec.) 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. [Also spelled
interruptor.]
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
interrupter
n 1: a device for automatically interrupting an electric current