switchboard model

in polymer crystals
https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.S06204
A model of crystallinity in which the crystallized segments of a macromolecule belong to the same crystal, although the stems are connected randomly.
Source:
Purple Book, 1st ed., p. 84 (http://old.iupac.org/publications/books/author/metanomski.html)