interrupter
nounEtymology From interrupt + -er.
1
One who or that which interrupts.
- The interrupter bowed, smiled, stroked his beard, and relapsed into his chair.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
2
A device for opening and closing an electrical circuit.
- The other half of the local staff was employed as interpreters, often affectionately known as 'interrupters.'2005, Ian Oliver, Jan Oliver, War and Peace in the Balkans:
- The Coldstream Guards were already in place and knocked on the door. Daz Farrugia stood at the door with the Iraqi interrupter. […] The door opened and a middle aged Iraqi man stood there in his pajamas, gobbing off in Arabic, saying who knows what, but I guessed it was not very complimentary; the interpreter managed to calm him down.2017, Dean Bailey, Crawling Out of Hell: The True Story of a British Sniper's Greatest Battle: