Circuit breaker
Circuit breaker noun - A device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded.
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Device and circuit breaker are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Device" instead a noun phrase "Circuit breaker".
Device
Device noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
Circuit breaker and device are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Circuit breaker" instead a noun "Device".
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In Real Life, though, the resulting electric current is momentary and nearly invisible and likely would just trip the nearest circuit breaker or fuse — but grabbing the electric device while in the bathtub would be just as lethal in real life as the trope is in fiction.
Source: Electrified Bathtub -
In Kim Newman's Deconstruction of sci-fi tropes, Tomorrow Town, the Big Bad's attempt to cobble together a Doomsday Device by setting the heating system to overload is thwarted by the supercomputer advising that for safety reasons, Circuit Breaker 15 should be pulled.
Source: Cut the Juice
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