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telephone exchange

telephone exchange noun: any equipment that establishes connections between telephones.

Noun

telephone exchange (plural telephone exchanges)

  1. Any equipment that establishes connections between telephones.
  2. (historical) The rooms or building housing such equipment (a central office, as it was termed by the Bell System).
  3. (historical) A local or locoregional network of such switched connections, of which a central office was the hub; the local company formed to create and maintain this network and its central office.
    • This valley didn't have a telephone exchange until 1903, when the leading citizens of this town invested in a company to establish one.
  4. The portion of a telephone number representing that network, among the other networks of the larger system: the central office code. In the North American Numbering Plan, this is the "555" portion of "+1-212-555-6789".
    • Holonyms: telephone number, phone number
    • A: You can telephone him at 2719. B: What's the [telephone] exchange? A: LA6. I'm sorry, that's LA6-2719.

telephone exchange meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Malay and Indonesian

telephone exchange in Tamil

தொலைபேசி இணைப்பகம், தொலைபன்னிமாற்று, தொலைபேசி நிலையம், தொலைபேசியகம்

telephone exchange in Kannada

ದೂರವಾಣಿ ವಿನಿಮಯ ಕೇಂದ್ರ, ದೂರವಾಣಿಯ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಕಚೇರಿ

telephone exchange in Malay

equipment
ibu sawat telefon
rooms
ibu sawat telefon

telephone exchange in Indonesian

equipment
sentral telepon
rooms
sentral telepon

Forms of telephone exchange

pluraltelephone exchanges

Questions about telephone exchange

What does telephone exchange mean?
Telephone exchange means any equipment that establishes connections between telephones.
What is telephone exchange in Tamil?
Telephone exchange in Tamil is தொலைபேசி இணைப்பகம், தொலைபன்னிமாற்று, தொலைபேசி நிலையம். See Telephone exchange meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is telephone exchange?
Telephone exchange is a noun.
What is the plural of telephone exchange?
The plural of telephone exchange is telephone exchanges.

Words near telephone exchange in the dictionary

  1. telephone conferences
  2. telephone desk
  3. telephone desks
  4. telephone directories
  5. telephone directory
  6. telephone exchange
  7. telephone exchanges
  8. telephone game
  9. telephone games
  10. telephone girl
  11. telephone girls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: telephone exchange (page history and authors); telephone exchange (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); telephone exchange (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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