Definitions

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  • noun The settings of switches on panels.

Etymologies

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switch +‎ -ology

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Examples

  • Altitudes, headings, switchology, sight picture, recovery altitude, threat awareness — all these factors had to be put together in an equation whose hoped-for result was survival.

    On Yankee Station Nichols, Tillman 1988

  • They didn’t reinforce proper switchology—the muscle memory of hands and fingers flipping switches, pulling triggers, pressing bomb-pickle buttons at the altitudes required to support the grunt.

    A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010

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