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noun Electricity.
an especially quiet switch that opens and closes an electric circuit by shifting a vial containing a pool of mercury so as to cover or uncover the contacts.
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mercury switch

noun
electrical engineering a switch in which a circuit is completed between two terminals by liquid mercury when the switch is tilted
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