Telephony

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Telephony \Te*leph"o*ny\, n.
     The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as
     with the telephone.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



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

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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)