telephony

English

Etymology

From telephone +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /təˈlɛf.ə.ni/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

telephony (usually uncountable, plural telephonies)

1. The act of sound transmission via the electromagnetic spectrum.
2. The study and application of telephone technology.

Derived terms

• IP telephony
• radio telephony
• wireless telephony

 

Translations

act of sound transmission via the electromagnetic spectrum

• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܘܼܛܵܡܠܝܼܠܘܼܬܵܐ f (ḳuṭamlīluta)
• Catalan: telefonia (ca) f
• Danish: telefoni (da) c
• Dutch: telefonie (nl) f
• Finnish: puhelintekniikka
• Galician: telefonía f
• German: Telefonie (de) f, Fernsprechwesen (de) n
• Greek: τηλεφωνία (el) f (tilefonía)
• Irish: teileafónaíocht f
• Italian: telefonia (it) f
• Kazakh: телефония (telefoniä)
• Latvian: telefonija f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: telefoni (no) m

  Nynorsk: telefoni m

• Portuguese: telefonia (pt) f
• Romanian: telefonie (ro) f
• Russian: телефони́я (ru) f (telefoníja)
• Spanish: telefonía (es) f
• Swedish: telefoni (sv) c

Further reading

• telephony on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• polythene