videophone

[ vid-ee-oh-fohn ]

/ ˈvɪd i oʊˌfoʊn /

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noun

a telephone that transmits and receives both voice and video, in the form of sequenced still images, between dedicated hardware devices.

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Origin of videophone

First recorded in 1950–55; video + (tele)phone

Words nearby videophone

video journalism, video mail, video memory, video nasty, videophile, videophone, videoplay, videoporn, video record, videorecorder, video referee

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How to use videophone in a sentence

The way television achieved market dominance kept videophone developers bullish about their technology’s future.
Videocalling needed more than a pandemic to finally take off. Will it last?|Anushree Dave|April 20, 2021|Science News
In Metropolis, the 1927 sci-fi silent film, a master of an industrial city in the dystopian future uses four separate dials on a videophone to put a call through.
Videocalling needed more than a pandemic to finally take off. Will it last?|Anushree Dave|April 20, 2021|Science News
Marketing researchers Steve Schnaars and Cliff Wymbs of Baruch College at the City University of New York theorized why videophones hadn’t taken off decades before in Technological Forecasting and Social Change in 2004.
Videocalling needed more than a pandemic to finally take off. Will it last?|Anushree Dave|April 20, 2021|Science News
When people are forced to experiment with new behaviors, as we did with the videophone during this pandemic, the result can be permanent behavioral changes.
Videocalling needed more than a pandemic to finally take off. Will it last?|Anushree Dave|April 20, 2021|Science News

Several scholars, including Andrew Meade McGee, a historian of technology and society at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, joined for an online panel to discuss the rocky history of the videophone and its 2020 success.
Videocalling needed more than a pandemic to finally take off. Will it last?|Anushree Dave|April 20, 2021|Science News
Tom flicked on the videophone and two men appeared on the screen.
Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X|Victor Appleton
Harlan just phoned and said he'd had a call from Washington, asking us to stand by the videophone at one-thirty sharp.
Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X|Victor Appleton
Tom switched on the videophone screen to a private channel to catch the noon news while they ate.
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung|Victor Appleton

British Dictionary definitions for videophone

videophone

/ (ˈvɪdɪəˌfəʊn) /

noun

a telephonic device in which there is both verbal and visual communication between parties

Derived forms of videophone

videophonic (ˌvɪdɪəˈfɒnɪk), adjective

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