Crossword clues for intercom
intercom
- Office squawker
- School sound system
- A communication system linking different rooms within a building or ship etc
- Syst. for sharing ideas
- House phone
- Squawk box
- Means to communicate in period without company
- Communications device
- Citroen beginning to make mobile phone system
- Entryphone, for example
- Organised crime not building telephone system
- Telephone system
- Office machine
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1940, colloquial shortening of intercommunication (mid-15c., "discussion, conference;" see inter- + communication), which is attested from 1911 in reference to systems of linked telephones.
Wiktionary
n. an electronic communication system, especially one between rooms in a building
WordNet
n. a communication system linking different rooms within a building or ship etc [syn: intercommunication system]
Wikipedia
An intercom (intercommunication device), talkback or doorphone is a stand-alone voice communications system for use within a building or small collection of buildings, functioning independently of the public telephone network(Azori 2016). Intercoms are generally mounted permanently in buildings and vehicles. Intercoms can incorporate connections to public address loudspeaker systems, walkie talkies, telephones, and to other intercom systems. Some intercom systems incorporate control of devices such as signal lights and door latches.
There are simple house intercoms and intercoms developed for collective apartments. Some are equipped with video, and its wiring (electrical installation), can be connected to the outside with few pairs (4-6 pairs) while controlling an electric strike. The last generations are even compatible with computers and some models include TCP/IP.
Usage examples of "intercom".
Blantyre asked, speaking directly to Adele instead of using the helmet intercom.
She combed her hair out, braided it, and then, over the intercom, told Amri to bring Tak Rafael to her room.
The intercom activated, and they were informed that the Billfish was standing by to dive.
The three Baudelaires huddled together for the rest of the night, getting what sleep they could on a filthy floor with a cold wind blowing through their inappropriate home, and in the morning, after a breakfast of leftover fruit salad, they walked to the completed half of Heimlich Hospital and carefully walked down all those stairs, past the intercom speakers and the confusing maps.
But high-tech hexes had long ago rigged intercoms among them all, and it was here that senior ambassadors with translators could conduct interhex business, try and keep the peace, deal with common problems, work out trade negotiations and the like.
He looked at the Air Force jumpmaster, whose tilted head indicated he was listening to instructions from the cockpit on his helmet intercom.
He hung up the intercom phone and called Captain Mccarty on the secure phone.
Streaker with his initial report, and a sled should already be returning down the new shortcut they had found, bringing a monofilament intercom line from home.
Dejected and drenched, I squelched up to the great iron gates of Il Piacere and pressed the buzzer for the intercom.
Then, after testing their suit intercoms, they closed the inner-portal air lock, reduced the air pressure, and opened the thick pluglike outer portal.
STARED GLUMLY at the intercom grille for several minutes, then reached out and pressed one of the studs below it.
The lo adie took one look at the bloodied windows, disconnected the intercom lead from his helmet and sprinted toward the front of the heli.
He put down his coffee tube, stood up, and stared at the dozen or more intercom monitors on the wall of the room, his back to the other two men.
He switched on the intercom and warned the passengers not to remove their harnesses until they were advised to do so.
From the slot of the intercom repros of the two documents slowly dribbled forth and dropped to the surface of the desk.