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switchboard
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun switchboard has 1 sense
- switchboard(n = noun.artifact) patchboard, plugboard - telephone central where circuits are completed with patchcords; Array is a kind of central, exchange, telephone exchange
is a part of phone system, telephone system
CIDE DICTIONARY
switchboard, n.
- an elctrical apparatus consisting predominantly of a panel on which are switches or other means of completing electrical circuits; -- used especially for the devices used in telephone exchanges. See sense 2. [PJC]
- An apparatus containing switches by means of which a connection may be made from an incoming telephone line to any one of numerous outgoing lines. The switches may be either mechanical or electronic, and the switching action may be automatic, controlled by signals in the incoming call, or manual, controlled by a switchboard operator. In older style manual switchboards, the circuits were connected by the use of patchcords, inserted into plugs. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
switchboard, n. an apparatus for varying connections between electric circuits, esp. in telephony.
THESAURUS
switchboard
A board, B board, L, PBX, R, acting area, apron, apron stage, backstage, band shell, bandstand, board, bridge, coulisse, dock, dressing room, flies, fly floor, fly gallery, forestage, greenroom, grid, gridiron, lightboard, orchestra, orchestra pit, performing area, pit, proscenium, proscenium stage, shell, stage, stage left, stage right, the boards, wings
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