Definitions for arresters

arresters ar·rest·er

Spelling: [uh-res-ter]
IPA: /əˈrɛs tər/

Arresters is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in arresters (aeerrrsst).

Definitions for arresters

noun

  1. Also, arrestor. a person or thing that arrests.
  2. Electricity. lightning arrester.

Origin of arresters

First recorded in 1400-50, arrester is from the late Middle English word arester. See arrest, -er1

Examples for arresters

Inserting a plug in the hole between the two line plates connects the line wires directly together at the arrester.

All currents above this critical amount will operate the arrester; the larger the current, the shorter the time of operating.

The passage of current to ground at the arrester, however, will be over a path containing nothing but wire and the arrester.

This feature is not essential in an arrester intended solely to divert lightning discharges.

Fig. 203 shows a device known as a "saw-tooth" arrester because of its metal plates being provided with teeth.

If you use a loop antenna, of course, no arrester is needed.

A form of Western Electric arrester particularly adapted for outside use on railway lines is shown with its cover in Fig. 210.

Diamond special spark arrester is used except in straw burners.

If this connection is poor it may render the arrester useless so far as protection from lightning is concerned.

He is the properest shape wherein they fancy Satan; for he is at most but an arrester, and hell a dungeon.

Word Value for arresters
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8

Words with friends

8

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