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Definition of Telephone exchange
1. Noun. A workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication.
Specialized synonyms: Centrex, Patchboard, Plugboard, Switchboard
Group relationships: Phone System, Telephone System
Generic synonyms: Work, Workplace
Derivative terms: Central
Definition of Telephone exchange
1. Noun. any equipment that establishes connections between telephones ¹
2. Noun. the building housing such equipment ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Telephone Exchange
Literary usage of Telephone exchange
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"Thereafter there was such improvement in telephone Instruments and appliances
that it became desirable to reconstruct the telephone exchange in the city, ..."
2. American Telephone Practice by Kempster Blanchard Miller (1905)
"THE telephone exchange IN GENERAL. THE object of a telephone exchange is to afford
means for telephonic intercommunication to a community. ..."
3. Bell's Electric Speaking Telephone: Its Invention, Construction, Application by George Bartlett Prescott (1884)
"THE telephone exchange. A marked impetus was given to the already widely extended
and continually increasing application of the telephone to business and ..."
4. Bell's Electric Speaking Telephone: Its Invention, Construction, Application by George Bartlett Prescott (1884)
"THE telephone exchange. A marked impetus was given to the already widely extended
and continually increasing application of the telephone to business and ..."
5. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1906)
"Vacancies for telephone exchange Managers. MB. WILES (Islington, S.) : To ask
the Postmaster-General when the vacancies for telephone exchange managers ..."
6. Experimental Electrical Engineering and Manual for Electrical Testing for by Vladimir Karapetoff (1910)
"Magneto-telephone exchange. —The function of a telephone exchange, or the "central,"
as it is commonly called, is to suitably connect the subscribers, ..."
7. Experimental Electrical Engineering and Manual for Electrical Testing for by Vladimir Karapetoff (1910)
"The function of a telephone exchange, or the "central," as it is commonly called,
is to suitably connect the subscribers, whose lines terminate on the ..."
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