switch gear

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switch gear (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of switchgear.
    • 1951 May, “British Railways Standard Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 328:
      The lighting equipment consists of [an] axle-driven shunt field dynamo with a regulator combining all the necessary switch gear as a unit, and a lead acid accumulator cell battery housed in two boxes on the underframe.