push-button — Dizionario inglese

Aggettivo

1. Which can be initiated or activated at the push of a button.

   Uso

   • not-comparable

   Parole correlate

   button pusherhit the buttonnuclear buttonpush someone's buttonspush the right buttons

   Esempi

   push-button warfare

   a push-button automatic [transmission]

   Altri esempi (1)

   The push-button, entrance-exit signalling console incorporated in the operating floor of the yard control tower governs entry to and egress from the yard, [...]

Sostantivo

1. An electrical switch activated by pressing a button.

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (2)

   The communicating doors of adjoining vehicles are opened simultaneously by pressing a large push-button located a suitable height for a man loaded with mailbags to contact it with his shoulder; after a time-lag of seven seconds the doors close automatically.

   The cab equipment of the automatic control system is illustrated. It consists of a rotary switch graduated from 0 to 120 km.p.h. at 5 km.p.h. intervals, and four push-buttons.