telephony : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: telephony	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for telephony
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
telephony n transmitting speech at a distance [syn: telephone, telephony]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Telephony \Teleph"ony\, n. The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as with the telephone.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [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)