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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Toggle

/täg'-əl/ · Tog·gle · IPA /ˈtɑ.ɡəl/
01 n. 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 …
  1. 1.
    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.(Naut.)
  2. 2.
    Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint.(Mach.)
  3. 3.
    A toggle switch.
02 v. t. To change the value of (a program variable) by activating a toggle switch; as, to toggle the view from character to graphic mode; to toggle…
  1. 1.
    To change the value of (a program variable) by activating a toggle switch; as, to toggle the view from character to graphic mode; to toggle the keyboard input from insert to overtype mode.(Computer programming)
Phrases & compounds
Toggle iron — a harpoon with a pivoted crosspiece in a mortise near the point to prevent it from being drawn out when a whale, shark, or other animal, is harpooned.
Toggle joint — an elbow or knee joint, consisting of two bars so connected that they may be brought quite or nearly into a straight line, and made to produce great endwise pressure, when any force is applied to bring them into this position.