electric switch

Questions about electric switch

What does electric switch mean?

electric switch means "control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit".

What is another word for electric switch?

Close synonyms include switch, electrical switch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is electric switch a common word?

electric switch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.