breaker
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1. breaker - Noun
2. breaker - Interjection
Meaning
One who, or that which, breaks.
Specifically: A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines; also, the building in which such a machine is placed.
A small water cask.
A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface.
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A circuit breaker is a temporary lockdown with a set end date, rather than an extended lockdown until cases drop past a certain point.
A co-worker and I were doing some service work on a 15kv breaker in a yard in FL, and the breaker was under an overhead 69kv line.
A ground fault protection relay must trip the breaker to protect the circuit before overheating of the resistor occurs.
An ASIC based IPS may detect and block denial-of-service attacks because they have the processing power and the granularity to analyze the attacks and act like a circuit breaker in an automated way.
An earth leakage circuit breaker includes a specialized latching relay.
And dedicate space in the books to someone like Alan Turing, the 20th-century British mathematician and code breaker who was condemned and tortured for being a homosexual.