Sentences with phrase «like circuit breakers»

Other genes act like circuit breakers to keep the system from overloading.

Delta's problems arose after a switchgear, which helps control and switch power flows like a circuit breaker in a home, malfunctioned for reasons that were not immediately clear.

Not exact matches

Like an electrical switch designed to automatically prevent a power overload, a circuit breaker tax credit is supposed to kick in when homeowners» property tax burdens overload their ability to pay.

A circuit - breaker like Vermont's does.

Meanwhile, Democratic State Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk likes the idea of implementing a property tax circuit breaker.

When our body has stress beyond our ability to adapt properly (like too many Christmas light strands plugged into a circuit), then the breaker will keep tripping (a recurring shift in the spine and associated secondary conditions).

Some vehicles use self - resetting circuit breakers instead of fuses on critical circuits (the ones that I know of are on the headlights, but it seems like the running lights and signal lights would also be candidates for circuit breakers.

«We're working hard to keep our customers» water prices as low and stable as possible, and big operational circuit breakers like this are essential to achieving savings and future price reductions,» said Cheroux.

The list includes things like malaria diagnostic test kits, dental cements, steel, aluminum, turbines, engines, medical sterilizers, dishwashers, bulldozers, buckets, copy machines, sewing machines, chain saws, concrete mixers, ball bearings, airplane rotors, batteries, video projectors, camera lenses, circuit breakers, flight data recorders, motorcycles, tug boats, seismographs, catheters, X-ray tubes, microscopes and rocket launchers.

In addition, newly constructed properties often boast safety features, like hard - wired smoke detectors and state - of - the - art circuit breakers, not found in older homes.