title: Switching
text: # Switching
  
  Switching may refer to:
  
  ## Computing and technology
  
  * Switching, functions performed by a switch:
     * Electronic switching
     * Packet switching, a digital networking communications methodology
        * LAN switching, packet switching on Local Area Networks
     * 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
  * Switching (pickleball), when doubles partners switch sides of their court
  * 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
  