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Definition of Electrical relay
1. Noun. Electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit.
Group relationships: Circuit, Electric Circuit, Electrical Circuit
Generic synonyms: Electrical Device
Terms within: Electromagnet
Derivative terms: Relay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Electrical Relay
Literary usage of Electrical relay
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Electromagnetic Phenomena, and on the Compass and Its by Timothy Augustine Lyons (1901)
"We have here the mechanism of an electrical relay—the feeble energy of the
electrical discharge [that] m call into play a giant energy. ..."
2. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"More recently, moderately retarded workers have been taught to assemble electrical
relay panels (1967), television rectifier units (1967), ..."
3. The Reign of Rubber by William Chauncey Geer (1922)
"... electrical relay contacts are closed in the block over which the signal governs
the train movements. ..."
4. Quarterly of the National Fire Protection Association by National Fire Protection Association (1896)
"... US Air Force -3 ICBM $2000000 ed caused by the unintentional cal closing of
an electrical relay in y destruct system, a USAF-Martin -3 intercontinental ..."
5. The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy and Telephony by John Ambrose Fleming (1919)
"It is usual to operate the transmitter in each station by electrical relay keys
worked from the adjacent receiving station. As regards short distance ..."
6. The Structure and functions of the brain and spinal cord by Victor Horsley (1892)
"... Reymond originally suggested, the nerve cell under these circumstances acts
like an electrical relay. This peculiar relation of a nerve cell to the side ..."
7. The Gas, Petrol, and Oil Engine by Dugald Clerk, George Arthur Burls (1909)
"time of fall is determined and checked by means of a tuning-fork operated
electrically and actuating an electrical relay which traces a curve on the falling ..."
8. A Text Book on Gas, Oil, and Air Engines by Bryan Donkin (1905)
"... sample unmixed with air, a single bubble of gas was taken from the exhaust
valve immediately after each explosion, by means of a small electrical relay. ..."
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