breaker point

1. 1.

   a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs

   Synonymsdistributor pointpoint

   Broadercontact

   Part ofdistributor

Questions about breaker point

What does breaker point mean?

breaker point means "a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs".

What is another word for breaker point?

Close synonyms include distributor point, point. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is breaker point a common word?

breaker point is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.