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Switching

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Switching may refer to:

Computing and technology

  • Switching, functions performed by a switch:
    • Electronic switching
    • Packet switching, a digital networking communications methodology
    • Telephone switching, the activity performed by a telephone exchange (telephone switching machine)
  • Switching, a synonym for shunting in rail transport

Other uses

  • Switching (ecology), a pattern of predation describing predators' selection of food based on its abundance
  • Switching (film), a 2003 Danish interactive film
  • Code-switching, of languages
  • Immunoglobulin class switching, an immunological mechanism that changes the type of antibody produced by B cells
  • Task switching (psychology), an experimental research paradigm used in cognitive psychology

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