crossbar
Speech parts
1. crossbar - Noun
2. crossbar - Verb
Meaning
A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down.
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A crossbar switch has multiple input and output lines that form a crossed pattern of interconnecting lines between which a connection may be established by closing a switch located at each intersection, the elements of the matrix.
A crossbar switching system is also called a coordinate switching system.
Also used was the Tironian note (a character similar to the digit 7) for the conjunction and, and a thorn with a crossbar through the ascender for the pronoun þæt main.
A marker-controlled crossbar system had in the marker a highly vulnerable central control; this was invariably protected by having duplicate markers.
After the Flyers opened the scoring early in the first period, Montreal centre Jesperi Kotkaniemi hit the crossbar 30 seconds into the third -- the fifth time the Canadiens found iron in just over 40 minutes.
A second set of vertical "hold" bars is set at right angles to the first (hence the name, "crossbar") and also operated by electromagnets.