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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A telephone used in a small closed system of telephones.

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  • noun a telephonic intercommunication system linking different rooms in a building or ship etc

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Examples

  • There's an international study called the interphone study that is starting to get some data back looking at several different countries, and they are finding a slightly higher brain tumor risk with people who use cell phones.

    CNN Transcript May 28, 2008 2008

  • Because he was talking with the interphone, we did not talk in details.

    Interview With Syrian President Bashar al-Assad 2011

  • Because he was waiting, he was startled when the interphone buzzed.

    I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

  • The interphone clicked off the attacks easily and accurately.

    Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008

  • Doing this with the purchase of phone card at 200 pesos a pop for unlimited interphone availability when you buy the phones at the same time and place, sounds like a good deal.

    Affordable communication 2007

  • A minute or two later, the lead flight attendant calls on the interphone to request permission to come to the cockpit.

    Touching History Lynn Spencer 2008

  • Less than a minute later, the interphone in the cockpit rings and the same flight attendant worriedly reports that the passenger has now advised her that Boston was the starting point for both crashed flights.

    Touching History Lynn Spencer 2008

  • A minute or two later, the lead flight attendant calls on the interphone to request permission to come to the cockpit.

    Touching History Lynn Spencer 2008

  • Less than a minute later, the interphone in the cockpit rings and the same flight attendant worriedly reports that the passenger has now advised her that Boston was the starting point for both crashed flights.

    Touching History Lynn Spencer 2008

  • Calhoun heard him call out on the interphone, “Bombs…”—and slump on his bombsight before he could complete the sentence.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

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