Shutter

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2-4-115

A device comprising opaque strips, usually mounted so that each may be rotated through about 90 degrees on an axis.

All strips rotate simultaneously so as alternately to exhibit or obscure a light.

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Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)