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telephony


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Telephony  \Te*leph"o*ny\,  n. 
  The  art  or  process  of  reproducing  sounds  at  a  distance,  as 
  with  the  telephone. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  telephony 
  n  :  transmitting  speech  at  a  distance  [syn:  {telephone}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  telephony 
 
    Communication,  often  two-way,  of  spoken 
  information,  by  means  of  electrical  signals  carried  by  wires 
  or  radio  waves.  The  term  was  used  to  indicate  transmission  of 
  the  voice,  as  distinguished  from  telegraphy  (done  in  {Morse 
  code}  and  usually  called  "{continuous  wave}"  or  CW 
  transmission),  radio  teletypewriter  (RTTY)  transmission  (also 
  called  FSK  for  "{Frequency  Shift  Keying}",  the  modulation 
  scheme  used  by  such  machines),  and  later  facimile. 
 
  (1995-03-14) 
 
 




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