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photointerrupter

noun

Etymology

From photo- + interrupter.

  1. derived from interruptus
  2. inherited from interrupten
  3. suffixed as interrupter — “interrupt + er”
  4. prefixed as photointerrupter — “photo + interrupter”

Definitions

  1. An optical device that acts as a switch when a beam of light is blocked by a foreign…

    An optical device that acts as a switch when a beam of light is blocked by a foreign object

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for photointerrupter. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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