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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]: telephonyCommunication, 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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