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telephonic

Word definitions for telephonic in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to telephony; "telephonic connection"

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1830, "pertaining to communication by sound over great distances," originally theoretical, from tele- + phonic . From 1834 in reference to the system of Sudré using musical sounds (see telephone ), and with reference to Bell's invention from 1876, in which ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, or transmitted by telephony.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Telephonic \Tel`e*phon"ic\, a. [Cf. F. t['e]l['e]phonique. See Telephone .] Conveying sound to a great distance. Of or pertaining to the telephone; by the telephone.

Usage examples of telephonic.

They acquired the inventions of Edison, Gray, and Dolbear, and entered the telephone field, announcing that they were prepared to furnish the very best in telephonic communication.

Pupin, of Columbia University, whose brilliant invention of the loading coil some ten years before had startled the scientific world and had increased the range of telephonic transmission through underground cables and through overhead wires far beyond what had formerly been possible.

Carty once said that on account of his distinguished scientific attainments and wonderful telephonic inventions, Professor Pupin would rank in history alongside of Bell himself.

The experimenters realized that future success lay in making the ether carry telephonic currents as it carried telegraphic currents.

Because of war-time conditions it was not possible to secure the use of the French station for an extended test, but the fact was established that once the apparatus is in place telephonic communication between Europe and America may he carried on regularly.

Telephonic communication was established between them, and thus he had attained wireless telephony by induction.

And might I say how your telephonic confabulation brightens up and cheers our otherwise dreary and uneventful day?

When Ahmed Sinai was asleep in his room, with his keys under his pillow and umbilical cords in his almirah, telephonic shrilling penetrated the buzzing of the heat insects.

We had stopped in town to get her brag sheet printed and she had arranged a mail drop with a public secretary, and she had induced me to pay for a mail and telephonic accommodation address, too.

The masses of the charged atmosphere are constantly in motion and give up electricity to the conductor, not continuously, but rather disruptively, this producing a grinding noise in a sensitive telephonic receiver.

He was also, for a time, professionally crippled by a shame so profound that, when clients finally did begin to book him once more and ask for one of his voices, for example the voice of a frozen pea or a glove-puppet packet of sausages, he felt the memory of his telephonic crimes welling up in his throat and strangling the impersonations at birth.

Luckily they were able to get into telephonic communication with various ranch owners along the road and arrange to have fresh relays of horses supplied to them every twenty miles, and here also Jesse called up Captain Hughes at Alice, and suggested that he substitute for the regular night clerk at the City Hotel one of the privates of the Rangers by the name of Harrod.

He donned a telephonic headset and listened to what was being picked up by the velocity microphone which he had planted under the carpet.

Still in a telephonic mood, I drew various blanks, machines and more voicemails, then got through to Uncle Freddy.