About The Word Toggle

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What's The Definition Of Toggle?

[n] a wooden peg or pin inserted into the eye at the end of rope in order to fasten it to something
[n] a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions
[n] any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time
[v] release by a toggle switch, of a bomb from an airplane
[v] fasten with, or as if with, a toggle
[v] provide with a toggle or toggles

Synonyms | Synonyms for Toggle: on-off switch | toggle switch

Related Terms | Find terms related to Toggle:

See Also | command | DIP switch | dual inline package switch | electric switch | electrical switch | fasten | fix | furnish | instruction | let go | let go of | pin | program line | provide | release | relinquish | render | secure | statement | supply | switch

Toggle In Webster's Dictionary

\Tog"gle\, n. [Cf. {Tug}.] [Written also {toggel}.] 1. (Naut.) A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes. 2. (Mach.) Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint. {Toggle iron}, a harpoon with a pivoted crosspiece in a mortise near the point to prevent it from being drawn out when a whale, shark, or other animal, is harpooned. {Toggle joint}, an elbow or knee joint, consisting of two bars so connected that they may be brought quite or nearly into a straight line, and made to produce great endwise pressure, when any force is applied to bring them into this position.

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