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Commonly used terms in the Electrical industry.
instantaneous-trip circuit breaker
essentially an inverse-time circuit breaker with the thermal element removed. It will only trip magnetically in response to short-circuit currents. Thus, it is often referred to by other names, such as magnetic circuit breaker and magnetic-only circuit breaker.