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:
“The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)