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Telephone exchange   Listen
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Telephone exchange  n.  A central office in which the wires of telephones from local subscribers may be connected by switches to other local telephones or to long-distance lines, to permit transmission of conversation or data. Note: In the late 1990's the traditional copper wires connecting local telephones to the telephone exchange have begun to be replaced with optical fiber connections.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Telephone exchange" Quotes from Famous Books



... yet subtle, realization of the interdependence of women and modern industry if you manage to penetrate into the operating-room of a telephone exchange. Any hour will do. Any day in the week. There are no nights, nor Sundays, nor holidays in a telephone exchange. The city could not get along for one single minute in one single hour of the twenty-four without the telephone girl. Her hands ...
— What eight million women want • Rheta Childe Dorr

... telephones in this system are radio transceivers, with each instrument having its own private radio frequency and sufficient radiated power to reach the booster station in its area (cell), from which the telephone signal is fed to a telephone exchange. Central American Microwave System - a trunk microwave radio relay system that links the countries of Central America and Mexico with each other. coaxial cable - a multichannel communication cable consisting of a central conducting wire, surrounded by and insulated from ...
— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency



Words linked to "Telephone exchange" :   patchboard, exchange, work, switchboard, telephone system, centrex



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