on-off switch

1. 1.

   a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions

   Synonymstoggle switchtoggleon/off switch

   Broaderswitch

   NarrowerDIP switch

Questions about on-off switch

What does on-off switch mean?

on-off switch means "a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions".

What is another word for on-off switch?

Close synonyms include toggle switch, toggle, on/off 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 on-off switch a common word?

on-off 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.