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mercury switch

American  

noun

Electricity.

  1. an especially quiet switch that opens and closes an electric circuit by shifting a vial containing a pool of mercury so as to cover or uncover the contacts.

mercury switch British  

noun

  1. electrical engineering a switch in which a circuit is completed between two terminals by liquid mercury when the switch is tilted

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