'Toggle' definitions:

Definition of 'toggle'

From: WordNet
noun
Any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time
noun
A hinged switch that can assume either of two positions [syn: toggle switch, toggle, on-off switch, on/off switch]
noun
A fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable)
verb
Provide with a toggle or toggles
verb
Fasten with, or as if with, a toggle
verb
Release by a toggle switch; "toggle a bomb from an airplane"

Definition of 'Toggle'

From: GCIDE
  • Toggle \Tog"gle\, n. [Cf. Tug.] [Written also toggel.]
  • 1. (Naut.) A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Mach.) Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A toggle switch. [PJC]

Definition of 'Toggle'

From: GCIDE
  • Toggle \Tog"gle\, v. t. (Computer programming) To change the value of (a program variable) by activating a toggle switch; as, to toggle the view from character to graphic mode; to toggle the keyboard input from insert to overtype mode. [PJC]
  • Toggle iron, a harpoon with a pivoted crosspiece in a mortise near the point to prevent it from being drawn out when a whale, shark, or other animal, is harpooned.
  • Toggle joint, an elbow or knee joint, consisting of two bars so connected that they may be brought quite or nearly into a straight line, and made to produce great endwise pressure, when any force is applied to bring them into this position.

Synonyms of 'toggle'

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