Toggle

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  toggle
       n 1: 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
       2: a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions
          [syn: {toggle switch}, {on-off switch}, {on/off switch}]
       3: 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)
       v 1: provide with a toggle or toggles
       2: fasten with, or as if with, a toggle
       3: release by a toggle switch; "toggle a bomb from an airplane"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "toggle":
     ankle, articulate, articulation, batten, batten down, bolt,
     boundary, buckle, butt, button, cervix, clasp, cleat, clinch, clip,
     closure, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, coupling,
     deck out, doll up, dovetail, dress up, elbow, embrace, fix up,
     gliding joint, gussy up, hasp, hinge, hinged joint, hip, hitch,
     hook, interface, jam, join, joining, joint, juncture, knee,
     knuckle, latch, link, lock, miter, mortise, nail, neck, peg, pin,
     pivot, pivot joint, rabbet, rivet, scarf, screw, seam, sew,
     shoulder, skewer, slick, smarten up, snap, spiff, spruce up,
     staple, stick, stitch, suture, symphysis, tack, tie rod,
     toggle joint, union, wedge, weld, wrist, zipper
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  toggle vt. To change a {bit} from whatever state it is in to the other
     state; to change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1. This comes from `toggle
     switches', such as standard light switches, though the word `toggle'
     actually refers to the mechanism that keeps the switch in the position
     to which it is flipped rather than to the fact that the switch has two
     positions. There are four things you can do to a bit: set it (force it
     to be 1), clear (or zero) it, leave it alone, or toggle it.
     (Mathematically, one would say that there are four distinct
     boolean-valued functions of one boolean argument, but saying that is
     much less fun than talking about toggling bits.)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  toggle
       
          To change a {bit} from whatever state it is in to the other
          state; to change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1.  This comes from
          "toggle switches", such as standard light switches, though the
          word "toggle" actually refers to the mechanism that keeps the
          switch in the position to which it is flipped rather than to
          the fact that the switch has two positions.  There are four
          things you can do to a bit: set it (force it to be 1), clear
          (or zero) it, leave it alone, or toggle it.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1994-12-12)