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    BREAKER POINT

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugsplay

    Synonyms:

    breaker point; distributor point; point

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting man-made objects

    Hypernyms ("breaker point" is a kind of...):

    contact; tangency ((electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact)

    Holonyms ("breaker point" is a part of...):

    distributer; distributor; electrical distributor (electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence)

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