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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. (Mach.) Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint. From WordNet r 1.6 [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}] 3: a wooden peg or pin inserted into the eye at the end of rope in order to fasten it to something v 1: provide with a toggle or toggles 2: fasten with or as if with a toggle 3: release by a toggle switch, of a bomb from an airplane From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [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 (13 Mar 01) [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)
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