rheotome

English
Differential rheotome

Etymology

From rheo- (“flow, current”) +‎ -tome (“cutter”), literally “flow cutter”.

Noun

rheotome (plural rheotomes)

  1. Any instrument that interrupts an electric current.
    • 1884, George Calvin Pitzer, Electricity in medicine and surgery, page 30:
      By means of the rheotome, the primary current is broken and closed rapidly, so that the induced current seems almost like a continuous one.
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