Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The transmission of sound between distant stations, especially by radio or telephone.
- noun The technology and manufacture of telephone equipment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The operation or art of telephoning, or reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance from their source.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as with the telephone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
sound transmission via theelectromagnetic spectrum . - noun The study and application of telephone technology.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun transmitting speech at a distance
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now as far as the frequency for GSM goes, in telephony it is quad band so no worries there.
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The future of mobile telephony is more along the lines of pay-as-you-go and Tracfone.
What $499 Buys From Apple (for Now) - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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That said, Ooma seems to be the first VoIP company to realize that internet-enabled telephony is capable of so much more than just placing and receiving calls at discount rates.
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This relatively short history of mobile telephony is concurrently marked by the shift of the role of users from consumers to active producers - and mobile media is being heralded as a new site for consumption, democratic expression, individualism, citizenship, and creativity.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Mobile Media conference in Australia, 2007: Call for Papers 2006
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His interest in telephony and computer systems started at 13 years old, and he ended up at the top of the list of the FBI's most wanted men.
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These infrastructural elements include, among others free public education, public libraries, common carrier rules in telephony and government sponsored scientific research.
Balkinization 2004
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Nice rant on how "circuit-switched" thinking is holding back advancement in telephony:
Boing Boing: October 26, 2003 - November 1, 2003 Archives 2003
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But I want to give you a general picture of our new era in telephony, and in recent coaxial cable development there's a remarkable example of the miniaturization I've been talking about.
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The perfection of wireless telegraphy and telephony is so great that you can sit down and talk to one another over distances of six to eight thousand miles.
The Ties of Empire 1925
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Ofcom, which explained that BTno longer had near-monopoly it once enjoyed, said almost a third of calls today were made from mobile phones and that increasing numbers were turning to Voice-over-Internet-Protocol computer telephony, which is much cheaper.
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