push button
Speech parts
1. push button - Noun
2. push button - Adjective
Meaning
an electrical switch operated by pressing
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push-button
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Examples
the elevator was operated by push buttons
the push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk
A break-through new technology was the introduction of Touch-Tone signaling using push-button telephones by American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1963.
But this decision seemed inexplicable as soon as Cash left the dugout, a push-button move when the moment demanded vision — or at least an acknowledgment that Anderson had been struggling.
He called in plant engineers to design a customized bed, equipped with hot and cold running water, built in six sections, and operated by 30 electric motors, with push-button adjustments.
Biased switches The momentary push-button switch is a type of biased switch.