Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun breaker_point

1 sense of breaker point

Sense 1
distributor point, breaker point, point -- (a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs)
       => contact, tangency -- ((electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact; "they forget to solder the contacts")