What is "pushbutton"

Usage examples of "pushbutton".

Another potential factor was the instrument studded with closely packed rows of tiny pushbuttons, which Ticos carried attached to his belt and through which he regulated various internal balances and individual environmental requirements of his specimens.

This fantasy can be as elaborate as you wish or need it to be - you can picture a pushbutton, or a toggle switch, or a huge lever or a control board.

Therefore Angus Parvis, treading the ground of Titan with heavy steps, gave no thought to the black shaft above his head, or to the pushbutton glowing like a ruby within its transparent little bubble-case.

The boy busied himself with the pushbutton controls of the autobar while Harker hung up his hat and jacket.

It seemed to me a self-correcting problem: in a few generations all the people who could be tempted by pushbutton ecstasy would be bred out of the race.

There were only three switches on the box: a pushbutton to start the generator, a click-detent rheostat to activate Baby Two, and a shuttle knob for pointing the new collimator head toward a target.

At an Exxon station, Jim handed Walker a quarter and stood next to the phone booth while Walker dragged his boot heel back and forth across an oil spot on the concrete and stabbed at the pushbuttons on the phone.

She saw bright offices, large windows overlooking the sea, charts on the walls, teletypes clicking, conferences, telephones with many pushbuttons, international visitors, articles in business magazines.

GUIs have virtual pushbuttons too, of course, but they also have other types of virtual controls, like radio buttons, checkboxes, text entry boxes, dials, and scrollbars.

O'Dell thumbed a pushbutton, automatically tuning in a local broadcast station.

There was air conditioning (that certainly wouldn't work), and cruise control, and a big pushbutton radio with lots of chrome - AM only, of course.

It had a light oak door, with a brass plate next to it, and a brass pushbutton for the buzzer.

But because the VCR was invented when it was--during a sort of awkward transitional period between the era of mechanical interfaces and GUIs--it just had a bunch of pushbuttons on the front, and in order to set the time you had to push the buttons in just the right way.

There were tiny joysticks and pushbuttons: translational controllers, to work the Command Module's clusters of attitude rockets.