telephone exchange
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telephone exchange
noun telephone exchanges
- Any equipment that establishes connections between telephones.
- The rooms or building housing such equipment (a central office, as it was termed by the Bell System).
- A local or locoregional network of such switched connections, of which a central office was the hub; the local company formed to create and maintain this network and its central office. This valley didn't have a telephone exchange until 1903, when the leading citizens of this town invested in a company to establish one.
- The portion of a telephone number representing that network, among the other networks of the larger system: the central office code. In the North American Numbering Plan, this is the "555" portion of "+1-212-555-6789". Holonyms: telephone number, phone number
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noun equipment
| Español | central telefónica |
|---|---|
| Français | commutateur téléphonique, autocommutateur |
| Italiano | centrale telefonica, autocommutatore |
noun rooms
| Español | central telefónica |
|---|---|
| Français | commutateur téléphonique, autocommutateur |
| Italiano | centrale telefonica, autocommutatore |
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title = {telephone exchange},
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