circuit breaker

On Thursday night, the cluster of coronavirus cases at a hotel quarantine site near the Melbourne airport grew to 13 and Andrews was forced to mandate a five-day lockdown, a “short, sharp circuit breaker” as he called it.

At the very least, we need circuit breakers at the state and city level in the highest transmission states.

A circuit breaker with an off setting is no good at all if it doesn’t have an honest on as well.

She argues that this approach must change, and that circuit breakers offer the potential to do enormous good with little harm.

The spokesperson, who spoke on condition of anonymity, also cited a recent example—one involving an audio post suggesting right-wing activists run over protesters with cars—of the circuit breaker working.

Some function of his brain acted as a psi-circuit breaker, shutting off awareness before his mind could be blasted.

A circuit-breaker may be set so as to open its connections in one or more seconds after a certain current begins to flow.

A circuit-breaker with its contacts under oil offers a much smaller opportunity than a fuse for the maintenance of an arc.

The accompanying cut shows the combination of battery B, the circuit-breaker, and the rod mounted upon the box.

With motors an automatic circuit breaker, disconnecting all wires of the circuit, may serve as both switch and cut-out.