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That function was traditionally implemented in the form of a mechanical device
known as a "switch".

The practice became so firmly embedded in the art and science of electricity
that the word became the generic term for any device that could perform
any similar function, so that now we have "switching transistors", integrated
"CMOS switches", and even central office telephone-circuit "switches".

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