electrical switch

Questions about electrical switch

What does electrical switch mean?

electrical 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 electrical switch?

Close synonyms include switch, electric 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 electrical switch a common word?

electrical 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.