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Of or related to any publicy utility institution mandated with maintaining the infrastructure for a particular public service; such as the provision of water, gas and electricity.
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international system of units (SI)
Electrical equipment; Electricity
A universal system of units in which the following six units of measure are considered basic: meter, kilogram, second, ampere, Kelvin degree and candela.
interrupter switch
Electrical equipment; Electricity
A switch equipped with an interrupter for making or breaking connections under load
interrupting medium
Electrical equipment; Electricity
The "fluid" used to interrupt the flow of electric current in a switch or circuit breaker. In high power equipment, this may be oil, insulating gas or even no material, as is the ...
interrupting rating
Electrical equipment; Electricity
The rating of a device to interrupt the flow of power or current, generally applied to a circuit breaker or a switch.
interruption
Electrical equipment; Electricity
The loss of electric service to one or more customers or other facilities. It is the result of one or more component outages.
interruption duration
Electrical equipment; Electricity
The period from the initiation of an interruption to a customer or other facility to the time the service is restored.
interruption, momentary
Electrical equipment; Electricity
An interruption of a duration limited to the period required to restore service by automatic or supervisory controlled switching operations or by manual switching at locations ...
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