Lexic.us

Definition of Selector switch

1. Noun. A switch that is used to select among alternatives.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Selector Switch

Literary usage of Selector switch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1911)
"The first group of impulses steps around the first selector switch to pick ... The second group of impulses works this second selector switch to pick out a ..."

2. Transactions by European Orthodontic Society, Lina Oswald, Northern Ohio Dental Society, Ossory Archaeological Society, Wentworth Historical Society, Society of Automobile Engineers (1910)
"The first selector switch used by a calling subscriber is operated in accordance with the first digit of the number he calls. Suppose, for example, he is ..."

3. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1915)
"The selector switch selects a trunk line leading to the hundreds group in which a desired subscriber is located. Here three revolutions of the dial are ..."

4. Automatic Telephony: A Comprehensive Treatise on Automatic and Semi by Arthur Bessey Smith, Wilson Lee Campbell (1921)
"As in the American Automatic system, each finder switch is tied "tail to tail" to a first selector switch. The first selector, second selector and connector ..."

5. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1913)
"The selector switch selects a trunk line leading to the hundreds group in which a desired subscriber is located. Here three revolutions of the dial are ..."

6. Automatic Telephony: A Comprehensive Treatise on Automatic and Semi by Arthur Bessey Smith, Wilson Lee Campbell (1914)
"The wipers of each finder switch are the terminals of a first selector switch. The wipers of these first selector switches do not have both a vertical and a ..."

7. Audels Engineers and Mechanics Guide by Frank Duncan Graham (1921)
"... but connects KE automatically to an idle first-selector switch the instant he removes in receiver from his switch hook preparatory to making a call. ..."

8. The Elements of Electrical Transmission: A Text-book for Colleges and by Olin Jerome Ferguson (1911)
"This is a selector switch because it gives choice between bus bars. It is also a group switch because it handles the group of feeders. ..."

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