push-button

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Adjective

push-button (not comparable)

  1. Which can be initiated or activated at the push of a button.
    push-button warfare
    • 1963 September, “The new Tyne and Healey Mills yards of the North Eastern”, in Modern Railways, page 171:
      The push-button, entrance-exit signalling console incorporated in the operating floor of the yard control tower governs entry to and egress from the yard, [...]

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Noun

push-button (plural push-buttons)

  1. An electrical switch activated by pressing a button.
    • 1959 December, “New TPOs for the Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 581:
      The communicating doors of adjoining vehicles are opened simultaneously by pressing a large push-button located a suitable height for a man loaded with mailbags to contact it with his shoulder; after a time-lag of seven seconds the doors close automatically.
    • 1964 May, “Automation in the cab—latest SNCF developments”, in Modern Railways, page 335:
      The cab equipment of the automatic control system is illustrated. It consists of a rotary switch graduated from 0 to 120 km.p.h. at 5 km.p.h. intervals, and four push-buttons.

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