toggle Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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. noun a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions
    on/off switch; toggle switch; on-off switch.
  3. noun a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable)
  4. verb provide with a toggle or toggles
  5. verb fasten with, or as if with, a toggle
  6. verb release by a toggle switch
    • toggle a bomb from an airplane

WordNet

Tog"gle noun
Etymology
Cf. Tug.
Definitions
  1. (Naut.)
  2. 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.
  3. (Mach.) Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint.
  4. A toggle switch.
Tog"gle transitive verb
Definitions
  1. (Computer programming) To change the value of (a program variable) by activating a toggle switch.

Webster 1913