telephony

3 definitions found

telephony - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

telephony - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  telephony
      n 1: transmitting speech at a distance [syn: telephone,
           telephony]

telephony - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  telephony
  
     <communications> 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)