Definitions for telephone exchange
tele·phone ex·change

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1. central, telephone exchange, exchangenoun

   a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. telephone exchangenoun

   any equipment that establishes connections between telephones

2. telephone exchangenoun

   the building housing such equipment

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1. Telephone exchange

   A telephone exchange, telephone switch, or central office is a telecommunications system used in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or in large enterprises. It interconnects telephone subscriber lines or virtual circuits of digital systems to establish telephone calls between subscribers. In historical perspective, telecommunication terms have been used with different semantics over time. The term telephone exchange is often used synonymously with central office, a Bell System term. Often, a central office is defined as a building used to house the inside plant equipment of potentially several telephone exchanges, each serving a certain geographical area. Such an area has also been referred to as the exchange or exchange area. In North America, a central office location may also be identified as a wire center, designating a facility to which a telephone is connected and obtains dial tone. For business and billing purposes, telecommunication carriers define rate centers, which in larger cities may be clusters of central offices, to define specified geographical locations for determining distance measurements. In the United States and Canada, the Bell System established in the 1940s a uniform nationwide numbering system of identifying central offices with a three-digit central office code and a three-digit numbering plan area code (NPA code, or area code). Central office codes were unique in each numbering plan area. The NPA code and the central office code were used as prefixes in subscriber telephone numbers. With the development of international and transoceanic telephone trunks, especially driven by direct customer dialing, similar efforts of systematic organization of the telephone networks occurred in many countries in the mid-20th century. For corporate or enterprise use, a private telephone exchange is often referred to as a private branch exchange (PBX), when it has connections to the public switched telephone network. A PBX is installed in enterprise facilities, typically near large office spaces or within an organizational campus to serve the organization's telephones and any private leased line circuits. Smaller installations might deploy a PBX or key telephone system in the office of a receptionist.

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1. telephone exchange

   A telephone exchange is a telecommunications system used in public switched telephone networks or in large enterprises. It interconnects telephone lines provided by a telephone company to allow communication between different locations. The system includes functions such as establishing, maintaining, and disengaging connections between telephone calls. In a more broad sense, it can be defined as a central system that coordinates and manages the routing of telephone calls.

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1. Telephone exchange

   A telephone exchange is a telecommunications system used in the public switched telephone network or in large enterprises. An exchange consists of electronic components and in older system also human operators that interconnect telephone subscriber lines or virtual circuits of digital systems to establish telephone calls between subscribers. In the public telecommunication networks a telephone exchange is located in a central office, typically a building used to house the inside plant equipment of potentially several telephone exchanges, each serving a certain geographical exchange area. Central office locations are often identified in North America as a wire centers, designating a facility from which a telephone obtains dial tone. For business and billing purposes, telephony carriers also define rate centers, which in larger cities may be clusters of central offices, to define specified geographical locations for determining distance measurements. In the U.S. and Canada, the Bell System established in the 1940s a uniform system of identifying each telephone exchange with a three-digit exchange code, or central office code, that was used as a prefix to the local telephone station number. All exchanges within a larger region, typically aggregated by state, were assigned a common area code. With the development of international and transoceanic telephone trunks, especially driven by direct customer dialing, similar efforts of systematic organization of the telephone networks occurred in many countries in the mid-20th century.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of telephone exchange in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

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   The numerical value of telephone exchange in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=telephone exchange
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Telephone_Exchange
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_Exchange
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=telephone exchange