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n. An electrical switch that operates with very little travel of (or pressure on) the actuator.
Usage examples of "microswitch".
Master Algologist Dephliny muttered, adjusting the microswitch implanted above his left occipital arch to quell the shaking in his right hand.
He knew she would be wearing the special lightweight headband, earpiece and microphone which, with a microswitch close to her head, enabled her to use the telephone without assistance if she wished.
Then a minute or two later, as Josie left, Karen heard the apartment door close, 389 Karen touched the telephone microswitch with her head.
She broke the connection by moving her head against the microswitch and tried again.
But when she pressed the phone microswitch with her bead, all she got was a recorded announcement.
Installed in the cockpit of a plane designed to be flown by a machine rather than a human, the pilot would control it with microswitch sensors and readout screens positioned in front of unmoving eyes.
Brown holds one of the little cylinders close to his visor, and uses a stylus to poke at microswitches inside it.
The temple shafts of the glasses were wide, and hadsmall knobs and microswitches along their length.
A few minutes later he adjusts the microswitches in his cuff to monitor the amphitheater.
Levers and gears might withstand the millennia, but what about whatever microswitches or subatomic gizmos they had in their brains?