"telephone exchange" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: telephone exchanges [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} telephone exchange (plural telephone exchanges)
  1. (telephony) Any equipment that establishes connections between telephones. Categories (topical): Telephony Related terms: Strowger switch, switchboard, telephone operator
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  2. (telephony) The rooms housing such equipment. Categories (topical): Telephony Translations (rooms): telefoncentral [common-gender] (Danish), telefooncentrale [feminine] (Dutch), puhelinkeskus (Finnish), commutateur téléphonique [masculine] (French), autocommutateur (english: among telephone workers) [masculine] (French), centrale telefonica [feminine] (Italian), autocommutatore [masculine] (Italian), telefonsentral [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), telefonsentral [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), centrala [feminine] (Polish), central telefónica [feminine] (Spanish), telefonväxel [common-gender] (Swedish), telefoncentral [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-telephone_exchange-en-noun-qAeUvVip Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications, telephony Disambiguation of 'rooms': 9 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (equipment): telefoncentral [common-gender] (Danish), telefooncentrale [feminine] (Dutch), puhelinkeskus (Finnish), commutateur téléphonique [masculine] (French), autocommutateur (english: among telephone workers) [masculine] (French), centrale telefonica [feminine] (Italian), autocommutatore [masculine] (Italian), telefonsentral [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), telefonsentral [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), centrala [feminine] (Polish), central telefónica [feminine] (Spanish), telefonväxel [common-gender] (Swedish), telefoncentral [common-gender] (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'equipment': 53 47

Inflected forms

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