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A protective switch that interrupts a circuit when an overload or another specified electrical fault occurs.
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- trip a circuit breaker
- reset a circuit breaker
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The circuit breaker tripped as the second heater engaged.
She reset the circuit breaker only after disconnecting the damaged cable.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular circuit breaker; plural circuit breakers. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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