In telecommunication, the term semiautomatic switching system has the following meanings:
- In telephone systems, a switching system in which telephone operators receive call instructions orally from users and complete them by automatic equipment.
- At tape relay intermediate stations, the manual routing or rerouting of taped messages without rekeying them.
Famous quotes containing the word system:
“All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by their revolutionary fathers, must now take their stand against this consolidating, corrupting money power, and put it down, or their children will become hewers of wood and drawers of water to this aristocratic ragocracy.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)