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Noun

telephony

The act of sound transmission via the electromagnetic spectrum.

Full definition from Telephony's Dictionary by Graham langley:

1."The engineering science of converting sound and data into electrical or electro-magnetic signals which can be transmitted by wire, fiber or radio and reconverted at the receiving end."

2. "Telephony": A weekly publication for engineers and scientists in the telecommunications industry.

Category:English nouns

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Telephony \Te*leph"o*ny\, n.
The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as
with the telephone.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet telephony
n : transmitting speech at a distance [syn: telephone]

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)