TELEPHONE
\tˈɛlɪfˌə͡ʊn], \tˈɛlɪfˌəʊn], \t_ˈɛ_l_ɪ_f_ˌəʊ_n]\
Definitions of TELEPHONE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance.
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To convey or announce by telephone.
By Oddity Software
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An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance.
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To convey or announce by telephone.
By Noah Webster.
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An instrument for reproducing sounds especially articulate speech at a distance. (Webster, 3rd ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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An instrument for sending and receiving speech or other sounds at a distance by means of electricity.
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To communicate or talk by such an instrument.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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In a general sense, any instrument or apparatus which transmits sound beyond its natural limits of audibility; thus the speaking-tube so much used in conveying the sound of the voice from one room to another in large buildings, or a stretched cord or wire attached to vibrating membranes or discs, constitutes virtually a telephone. But the name is generally restricted to an instrument transmitting sound by means of electricity and telegraph wires. About the year 1860 the idea that sound-producing vibrations could be transmitted through a wire by means of electricity began to be recognized by several men of science. Reis of Frankfort invented an apparatus which could reproduce at a distant station the pitch of a musical sound by means of a discontinuous current along a telegraph wire. A great step in advance was made in 1876 when Prof. Graham Bell, a Scotchman resident in this country, discovered an articulating telephone which depends upon the principle of the undulating current, and by means of which the very quality of a note, and therefore conversation itself, could be reproduced at a distant station. Several varieties of telephonic apparatus are now in everyday use for intercommunication between distant places.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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An instrument for reproducing sound at a distant point by the transmission of impulses over a conducting wire or cord, especially by the agency of electricity. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
