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What is a circuit breaker?

What is a circuit breaker? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (electrical engineering) An electrical switch capable of opening and closing an electrical circuit in all operating conditions, including fault situations.
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If your mower is electric, check the cable for loose connections and for cuts and abrasions and fit a circuit breaker to the plug socket.
Turn the power off at the furnace or by removing the fuse or pulling the circuit breaker that runs the furnace fan.
At some point the electrician came to fix the circuit breaker that shorted out last night.
If the equipment is wired incorrectly, operators using a device with a single-pole circuit breaker are at risk of electric shock when it trips.
If you overload an electrical system with too much energy and too much stimulation, the circuit breaker activates and shuts everything down.
Mechanics placarded the autopilot as inoperative, though they did not pull or safety the circuit breaker.

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