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Webster 1913 Edition

Rheotome

Rhe′o-tome

(rē′ō̍-tōm)

,

Noun.

[Gr.

ῥεῖν

to flow +

τέμνειν

to cut.]

(Elec.)

An instrument which periodically or otherwise interrupts an electric current.

Wheatstone.