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telephony


noun

  1. the construction or operation of telephones or telephonic systems.
  2. a system of telecommunications in which telephonic equipment is employed in the transmission of speech or other sound between points, with or without the use of wires.

noun

  1. a system of telecommunications for the transmission of speech or other sounds

n.1835, “a system of signaling by musical sounds;” from 1876 as “the art of working a telephone;” see tele- + -phone.

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