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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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
“Legacy” networks that transmit calls the way they did before the internet revolutionized telephony aren’t covered.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2022
The collapse was caused by a software malfunction when the company was carrying out maintenance work on its telephony platform for business customers, he said.
From Reuters • Jul. 14, 2021
The era of commercial telephony began when Thomas Edison, who had invented the phonograph just a year prior, telephoned from his home in Menlo Park, New Jersey, to Philadelphia in 1878.
From Slate • Aug. 21, 2019
Wireless telephony must come to the front in the near future, but at first for only very special purposes.
From Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast by Sutherland, George
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