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Answer for the clue "Telephone installation ", 11 letters:
switchboard
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The term switchboard , when used by itself, may refer to: Telephone switchboard Electrical controls: Electric switchboard in industrial applications like electricity generation Distribution board in residential and commercial applications Printed circuit ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
switchboard \switch"board`\ n. an elctrical apparatus consisting predominantly of a panel on which are switches or other means of completing electrical circuits; -- used especially for the devices used in telephone exchanges. See sense 2. (Telephone) An ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also switch-board , "device for making interchangeable connections between many circuits," 1867, from switch (n.) + board (n.1).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN operator ▪ One switchboard operator said that at this moment in time she didn't know. ▪ He went back to your hotel and had a very interesting chat with the switchboard operator . ▪ The switchboard operator rang an extension. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context telecommunications English) The electronic panel that is used to direct telephone calls to the desired recipient. 2 (context electronics English) A device that directs electricity from one source to another.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. telephone central where circuits are completed with patchcords [syn: patchboard , plugboard ]
Usage examples of switchboard.
Azure said tersely, and went on to explain that the living switchboards enabled members of the Associative to stay in touch with each other over considerable distances.
The Enochian metagrammar parsers do their thing and the damned souls or enchained demons or whatever on switchboard hiss louder then connect the circuit.
Returning hastily after a vain glance up and down the dark street outside, Spooner hunted for the missing switchboard man.
There was a stim block strapped to each wrist with lines going to a switchboard of receptors and a row of timedose dermals running all the way up to his biceps.
Gertie, the telephone operator, flashed him a glance from eyes that were starry, as she reached for the switchboard to notify Bill Brakey that The Kid was on his way up.
They were simple enough to him, who had made a career of working with alien mechanisms, but to Gibbs they looked like a miniature powerhouse switchboard.
Warden said thinly, indicating the switchboard, and grinned at him wildly slyly.
While the Hoka at the switchboard in far-off Mixumaxu routed his beam, he licked dry lips and ran a shaky finger under his collar.
Then he drove on to the police station and put a call in to Vallance through the Scotland Yard switchboard.
Behind him the watchkeeper on the electrical switchboard was grinning, waiting for it, and the PO sitting in front of the boiler panels - a console of switches, dials and indicator lights - had an ear cocked too.
Police switchboards became jammed with calls of sightings by nervous citizens.
Selmer tried several times to get through to Washington, and to Donald Firenza, but the telephone switchboards were constantly busy.
It was flanked with an impressive array of technology, several telephones, an intercom system, a switchboard, and - behind him - just visible from where she stood looking plaintive, an array of video-screens.
Colonel Huark sat in his bunker, staring at the small touchpad linked to the switchboard, and his fingers twitched as he thought of the mass death awaiting his touch.
Anita was gone for the evening, and the switchboard routed everything to voicemail after 5:00, but the light that was flashing was for her private line.