rheotome
English
Noun
rheotome (plural rheotomes)
- Any instrument that interrupts an electric current.
- 1884, George Calvin Pitzer, Electricity in medicine and surgery, p. 30.
- By means of the rheotome, the primary current is broken and closed rapidly, so that the induced current seems almost like a continuous one.
- 1884, George Calvin Pitzer, Electricity in medicine and surgery, p. 30.
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