Breaker vs Isolator - What's the difference?
breaker | isolator |
Something that breaks.
A machine for breaking rocks, or for breaking coal at the mines
The building in which such a machine is placed.
A small cask of liquid kept permanently in a ship's boat in case of shipwreck.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
A person who specializes in breaking things.
(chiefly, in the plural) A wave breaking into foam against the shore, or against a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface, considered a useful warning to ships of an underwater hazard
* 1919 ,
(colloquial) A breakdancer.
A user of CB radio.
an insulator (object or material that does not conduct electricity; a non-conductor )
As nouns the difference between breaker and isolator
is that breaker is something that breaks while isolator is an electrical device that detects short circuits and isolates them.breaker
English
(wikipedia breaker)Noun
(en noun)- Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.
- Now and then in the lagoon you hear the leaping of a fish [...]. And above all, ceaseless like time, is the dull roar of the breakers on the reef.