"radio button" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: radio buttons [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} radio button (plural radio buttons)
  1. Any of a line of preset buttons on a car radio used to select the station to be listened to; pressing one releases the others. Hypernyms: button Translations (preset button on a radio): kanavanvalintanäppäin (Finnish), bouton radio [masculine] (French), Radiotaste [feminine] (German), Schaltknopf [masculine] (German), radyo düğmesi (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-radio_button-en-noun-dDODNhrW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of 'preset button on a radio': 89 11
  2. (graphical user interface) Any of a group of widgets in a graphical user interface that is used to select one of a group of options; the selection of any one deselects the others. Categories (topical): Graphical user interface Translations (selction button in graphical user interface): 選擇鈕 (Chinese Mandarin), 选择钮 (xuǎnzé niǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), výběrové tlačítko [neuter] (Czech), keuzerondje [neuter] (Dutch), radioknop [masculine] (Dutch), valintanappi (Finnish), bouton radio [masculine] (French), Funkknopf [masculine] (German), Optionsfeld [neuter] (German), Optionsschaltfläche [feminine] (German), Radiobutton [neuter] (German), ラジオボタン (rajio botan) (Japanese), botão de rádio [masculine] (Portuguese), botão de opção [masculine] (Portuguese), радиокно́пка (radioknópka) [feminine] (Russian), seçenek düğmesi (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-radio_button-en-noun-en:graphical_user_interface Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Topics: computing, engineering, graphical-user-interface, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'selction button in graphical user interface': 12 88

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