Lexic.us

Definition of Telephone

1. Noun. Electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds. "I talked to him on the telephone"

2. Verb. Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone. "They telephone "; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning"

3. Noun. Transmitting speech at a distance.

Definition of Telephone

1. n. An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance.

2. v. t. To convey or announce by telephone.

Definition of Telephone

1. [v -PHONED, -PHONING, -PHONES]

Medical Definition of Telephone

1. An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance. The ordinary telephone consists essentially of a device by which currents of electricity, produced by sounds through the agency of certain mechanical devices and exactly corresponding in duration and intensity to the vibrations of the air which attend them, are transmitted to a distant station, and there, acting on suitable mechanism, reproduce similar sounds by repeating the vibrations. The necessary variations in the electrical currents are usually produced by means of a microphone attached to a thin diaphragm upon which the voice acts, and are intensified by means of an induction coil. In the magnetic telephone, or magneto-telephone, the diaphragm is of soft iron placed close to the pole of a magnet upon which is wound a coil of fine wire, and its vibrations produce corresponding vibrable currents in the wire by induction. The mechanical, or string, telephone is a device in which the voice or sound causes vibrations in a thin diaphragm, which are directly transmitted along a wire or string connecting it to a similar diaphragm at the remote station, thus reproducing the sound. It does not employ electricity. Origin: Gr. Far off + sound. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Telephone

teleozoic teleozoon telepath telepathic telepathically telepathies telepathine telepathise telepathist telepathize

telepathology telepaths telepathy telepathy telephone (current term) telephone (current term) telephoned telephoner telephoners telephones

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