Meanings
plural toggle switches
- computingA control resembling such a switch, allowing a setting to be enabled or disabled.
[…] most participants (17 out of 20) had problems using toggle switches and preferred checkboxes instead.
2023, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Maurice D. Mulvenna, Martina Ziefle, Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health, page 141 more example
When we add code modules, we will have an additional folder called (surprise!) Modules. We can use this toggle switch to display/hide all items within our folders.
2013, John Connell, Beginning Visual Basic 6 Database Programming, page 129
Synonyms & antonyms
switch
nouna hinged switch that can assume either of two positions
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From the similarity of the control lever in early designs to a toggle.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Esperanto baskulŝaltilo
- baskulŝaltiloswitch actuated by a lever
Estonian tumblerlüliti
- tumblerlülitiswitch actuated by a lever
Finnish vipukytkin
- vipukytkinswitch actuated by a lever
French interrupteur à levier, interrupteur à bascule
- interrupteur à levierswitch actuated by a lever
- interrupteur à basculeswitch actuated by a lever
German Kippschalter, Hebelschalter
- Kippschalterswitch actuated by a lever
- Hebelschalterswitch actuated by a lever
- Kipphebelschalterswitch actuated by a lever
- Umschalterswitch actuated by a lever
- Wechselschalterswitch actuated by a lever
Greek μοχλοδιακόπτης
- μοχλοδιακόπτης (mochlodiakóptis)switch actuated by a lever
Italian interruttore basculante, interruttore
- interruttore basculanteswitch actuated by a lever
- interruttoreswitch actuated by a lever
Polish przełącznik
- przełącznikswitch actuated by a lever
Russian ту́мблер, переключа́тель
- ту́мблер (túmbler)switch actuated by a lever
- переключа́тель (pereključátelʹ)switch actuated by a lever
Spanish interruptor basculante, interruptor de palanca
- interruptor basculanteswitch actuated by a lever
- interruptor de palancaswitch actuated by a lever
- conmutadorswitch actuated by a lever
- interruptor de conmutaciónswitch actuated by a lever
Cite this entry
toggle switch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/toggle%20switch
“toggle switch.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/toggle%20switch. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “toggle switch,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/toggle%20switch.
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