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chopper 1. Chiefly Brit a small hand axe 2. a butcher's cleaver 3. an informal name for a helicopter 4. Physics a device for periodically interrupting an electric current or beam of radiation to produce a pulsed current or beam 5. a type of bicycle or motorcycle with very high handlebars and an elongated saddle 6. NZ a child's bicycle chopper [′chäp·ər] (engineering) Any knife, axe, or mechanical device for chopping or cutting an object into segments. (physics) A device for interrupting an electric current, beam of light, or beam of infrared radiation at regular intervals, to permit amplification of the associated electrical quantity or signal by an alternating-current amplifier; also used to interrupt a continuous stream of neutrons to measure velocity. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| And here is where Nick Chopper destroyed the Wicked Witch's Grey Wolves. Chopper as you go through the City to-morrow; he'll have something for you. "But," said I, "it is not a question of fishing for them with an iron-swivel, hoisting them into the vessel, cutting off their tails with a blow of a chopper, ripping them up, and throwing their heart into the sea |
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