Definition of "contactor" []

• An electrical relay used to control the flow of power in a circuit. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The contactor is a stamped spring pin with 34 gram actuation force per pin and cycle life of 100,000 insertions."
• "The contactor is a stamped spring pin with 26 gram actuation force per ball and cycle life of 100,000 insertions."
• "Part IV notes that the independent contactor [sic] model that typified the 19th century in North American remains prevalent in the Dutch system of prostitution, a radically different framework owing to the absence of criminalization."