Synonyms:
relay
Meaning: the act of passing something along from one person or group to another; "the relay was successful"
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
relay
Meaning: pass along; "Please relay the news to the villagers"
Usage examples
A relay thus wound is known as a differential relay--more generally called a neutral relay.
"Couriers and relay horses by land, and swift-sailing pilot-boats by sea, were flying in all directions.
The relay coils are connected by wire to the spring piece, S, and the armature lever is connected to earth.
This device being a relay, its purpose is to repeat transmitted signals into a local circuit, as before explained.
With a simple circuit, therefore, between two stations and where an intermediate battery is not necessary, a relay is not used.
There is a battery, C, and a key, K. When the key is depressed, current flows through the relay coils at A, but no magnetism is produced, as they oppose each other.
An essential part of this relay consists of a swinging PERMANENT magnet, C, whose polarity remains fixed, that end between the terminals of the electromagnet being a north pole.
The current, however, flows out through the main-line coil over the line and through the main-line coil 1 at B, completing its circuit to earth and magnetizing the bar of the relay, thus causing its armature to be attracted.
The relay at A would be unresponsive, but the core of the relay at B would be magnetized and its armature respond to signals from A. In like manner, if the transmitter at B be closed, current would flow through similar parts and thus cause the relay at A to respond.
If, therefore, there be placed in the same circuit a regular telegraph relay and a special telephone, an operator may, by manipulating a key, operate the relay (and its sounder) without producing a sound in the telephone, as the makes and breaks of the key are far below the limit of audibility.