TELEPHONY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telephony mean? 

• TELEPHONY (noun)
  The noun TELEPHONY has 1 sense:

1. transmitting speech at a distance

  Familiarity information: TELEPHONY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELEPHONY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transmitting speech at a distance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

telephone; telephony

Hypernyms ("telephony" is a kind of...):

telecom; telecommunication ((often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically)

Domain member category:

call; call up; phone; ring; telephone (get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone)

cell phone (call up by using a cellular phone)

call in (make a phone call)

dial (operate a dial to select a telephone number)

hang on; hold on; hold the line (hold the phone line open)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "telephony"):

voice mail; voicemail (a computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls; telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed)

call; phone call; telephone call (a telephone connection)

call forwarding (lets you transfer your incoming calls to any telephone that you can dial direct)

call waiting (a way of letting you know that someone else is calling when you are using your telephone)

Derivation:

telephonic (of or relating to telephony)

telephonist (someone who helps callers get the person they are calling)

 Context examples 

Internet, Wi-Fi, wireless telephony, it's not only GSM, we are submitted to a cocktail of electromagnetic waves.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)