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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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
“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
Sometimes it is called a system of “multiplex” telephony because it permits more than one message at a time.
From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John
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