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Telephone exchange   /tˈɛləfˌoʊn ɪkstʃˈeɪndʒ/   Listen
Telephone exchange

noun
1.
A workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication.  Synonyms: central, exchange.






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"Telephone exchange" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sea Girt cottage and the Wilson headquarters at Baltimore was kept busy from early morning until late at night. The telephone exchange in the cottage was so arranged that a branch telephone was kept in the little room under the stairway, which constituted a sort of listening post, which permitted me, in accordance with the suggestion of the Governor himself, to listen in on conversations, not ...
— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty

... yet subtle, realization of the interdependence of women and modern industry if you manage to penetrate into the operating-room of a telephone exchange. Any hour will do. Any day in the week. There are no nights, nor Sundays, nor holidays in a telephone exchange. The city could not get along for one single minute in one single hour of the twenty-four without the telephone girl. Her hands ...
— What eight million women want • Rheta Childe Dorr

... the direction indicated, Jack saw a wavering glare, and with a new thrill of excitement was immediately off on the run. The telephone exchange was one of the ...
— The Young Railroaders - Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity • Francis Lovell Coombs

... telephones in this system are radio transceivers, with each instrument having its own private radio frequency and sufficient radiated power to reach the booster station in its area (cell), from which the telephone signal is fed to a telephone exchange. Central American Microwave System - a trunk microwave radio relay system that links the countries of Central America and Mexico with each other. coaxial cable - a multichannel communication cable consisting of a central conducting wire, surrounded by and insulated from ...
— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... the telephones in this system are radio transceivers, with each instrument having its own private radio frequency and sufficient radiated power to reach the booster station in its area (cell), from which the telephone signal is fed to a telephone exchange. ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States



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