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dimmer switches

dimmer switches is the plural of dimmer switch.

Meaning of dimmer switch

Noun

dimmer switch (plural dimmer switches)

  1. A light switch which can adjust the brightness of the switched lamp from dim to bright, as well as turning it on and off.
    • Elder Price: "Well, Elder McKinley, I think it's okay that you're having gay thoughts just so long as you never act upon them."
      Elder McKinley: "No, because then you're just keeping it down, like a dimmer switch on low (on low), thinking nobody needs to know (Uh-oh!)"2011, Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, Matt Stone, “Turn It Off” (track 5), in The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording
  2. (rare) A switch that changes the headlamps on a motor vehicle from low to high and from high to low beam; a high-beam switch; a brights switch.

Questions about dimmer switches

What is dimmer switches the plural of?
Dimmer switches is the plural of dimmer switch.

Words near dimmer switches in the dictionary

  1. dimmened
  2. dimmening
  3. dimmens
  4. dimmer
  5. dimmer switch
  6. dimmer switches
  7. dimmers
  8. dimmest
  9. dimmet
  10. dimmeth
  11. dimmets

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