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Annunciator

noun
1.
An indicator that announces which electrical circuit has been active (as on a telephone switchboard).





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"Annunciator" Quotes from Famous Books



... wish to spend the first fortnight of the honeymoon on the Atlantic. Such berths are, it seems, always to be found on board the principal river-steamers in America, but are as yet unknown on this side of the water. Each berth has a bell-rope communicating with a patented machine called the "Annunciator." This is a circular plate about the size of the face of an eight-day clock, covered with numbers corresponding with those of the state-rooms. Each number is concealed by a semi-circular plate, which is removed or turned round as soon as the rope is pulled in the state-room ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. • Various


Words linked to "Annunciator" :   indicator, annunciate


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