Usually means: Device that controls circuit by switching.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word relay:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. relay: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. relay: Merriam-Webster
  3. relay, relay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. relay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. relay: Collins English Dictionary
  6. relay: Vocabulary.com
  7. Relay, relay: Wordnik
  8. relay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. relay: Wiktionary
  10. relay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. relay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. relay: Dictionary.com
  13. relay (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. relay: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Relay (disambiguation), Relay (satellite), Relay (shop), Relay (song), Relay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Relay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. relay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. relay: Rhymezone
  19. Relay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. relay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. relay: FreeDictionary.org
  22. relay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. relay: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  3. relay: Legal dictionary
  4. Glossary of Trucking Terms (No longer online)
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. relay: Hacking Lexicon
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Relay (satellite), relay: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. relay: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. RELAY: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rel'ay, Relay: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Relay: Sports Definitions

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. relay: Electronics
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Explosives (No longer online)
  4. RELAY: The Home Appliance Page
  5. Relay: Data Acquisition
  6. Reliance Electric motor terms (No longer online)
  7. RELAY: Power Engineering

(Note: See relaid as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (hunting, rare) A new set of hounds.
noun:  (now chiefly historical) A new set of horses kept along a specific route so that they can replace animals that are tired.
noun:  (by extension) A new set of anything.
noun:  A series of vehicles travelling in sequence.
noun:  (sports) A competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action.
noun:  (athletics) A track and field discipline where runners take turns in carrying a baton from start to finish. The most common events are 4×100 meter and 4×400 meter competitions.
noun:  (electronics) An electrical actuator that allows a relatively small electrical voltage or current to control a larger voltage or current.
verb:  (transitive) To pass on or transfer (information).
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive, hunting) To release a new set of hounds.
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To place (people or horses) in relays, such that one can take over from another.
verb:  (intransitive, now rare) To take on a new relay of horses; to change horses.
verb:  Alternative spelling of re-lay [(transitive) To lay (for example, flooring or railroad track) again.]

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