An unscrupulous and sometimes illegal sales technique, in which an inexpensive product is advertised to attract prospective customers who are then told by sales personnel that the inexpensive product is unavailable or of poor quality and are instead urged to buy a more expensive product.

(networking) A means of directing digitally encoded information in a communication network from its source to its destination, in which messages may be divided into smaller entities called packets, each of which travels independently through the network in paths based on moment to moment routing decisions made by the nodes through which they pass.

plural of light switch

(baseball, softball) To bat both left and right-handed. / (cricket) To face the bowler with a left or right-handed batting stance, and then switch to the opposite stance as the ball is bowled.

(cricket) An instance of switch-hitting.

Relating to use of bait and switch (offering one attractive exchange initially, but not honoring the offer) in business, politics, and elsewhere.

(baseball) A person who can bat either as a right-hander or a left-hander. / (cricket) A batsman who performs switch-hits.

A type of stepping switch able to select on two axes, formerly widely used in telephone exchanges.

An electromechanical device which connects an input to one of a number of outputs according to how many electrical pulses it has received on its input.

plural of trip switch