telephony
Americannoun
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the construction or operation of telephones or telephonic systems.
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a system of telecommunications in which telephonic equipment is employed in the transmission of speech or other sound between points, with or without the use of wires.
noun
Etymology
Origin of telephony
Example Sentences
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Las Vegas: IBM unveiled a device that merged telephony and computing in 1992 at a Las Vegas trade show, previewing the coming mobile era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
For Luis, the outwardly dull telephony work has provided the anchor he needs to stay out of crime, something he says ex-gang members he knows in the US struggle with.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2025
We jumped directly from human operators to something called the panel switch, a near-miracle of telephony in the 1910s and ’20s.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
Conecel signed a concession with Ecuador in 2008 to operate its mobile telephony market until Aug. 26, 2023 with hundreds of millions of dollars in planned investments.
From Reuters ● Aug. 22, 2023
Two years ago the headlines in the papers announced that a man in Washington had talked by wireless telephony with a man in Hawaii.
From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various
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