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名詞

time switch (plural time switches)

1. (electrical engineering) A switch activated automatically at a preset time.
   • 1939 November, “Pertinent Paragraphs: Traffic Lights at Crossings on Manx Electric Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 361:

     A time switch with astronomical adjustment switches the warning signs on at sunset.

別の表記

• time-switch
• timeswitch

参考

• time-switch (verbal form)

関連する語

• timer

参照

• “time switch”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.