electrical relay

1. 1.

   electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit

   Synonymsrelay

   Broaderelectrical device

   Part ofcircuit

   Partselectromagnet

Questions about electrical relay

What does electrical relay mean?

electrical relay means "electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit".

What is another word for electrical relay?

Close synonyms include relay. 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 electrical relay a common word?

electrical relay 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.