MAKE-AND-BREAK


Meaning of MAKE-AND-BREAK in English

/mayk"euhn brayk"/ , adj.

noting or pertaining to a device, operated by an electric current, for automatically opening or closing a circuit once it has been closed or opened by a mechanical springlike device, as in a doorbell.

[ 1855-60 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .