three-way switch

1. 1.

   an electric switch that has three terminals; used to control a circuit from two different locations

   Synonymsthree-point switch

   Broaderswitch

Questions about three-way switch

What does three-way switch mean?

three-way switch means "an electric switch that has three terminals; used to control a circuit from two different locations".

What is another word for three-way switch?

Close synonyms include three-point 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 three-way switch a common word?

three-way 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.