push button

2 definitions found

push button - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Push button \Push button\ (Elec.)
     A simple device, resembling a button in form, so arranged
     that pushing it closes an electric circuit, as of an electric
     bell; -- called also button.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

push button - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  push button
      n 1: an electrical switch operated by pressing; "the elevator
           was operated by push buttons"; "the push beside the bed
           operated a buzzer at the desk" [syn: push button, push,
           button]