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"ref": "1975, LQ Krasin, RD Mccallum, Ringing generator for telephone station terminal - US Patent 3,886,321",
"text": "voltage generator ringtone for installation in terminal stations of telephone communication systems for carrier wave",
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"ref": "1980, Journal of Mechanical Design, page 229",
"text": "The transducers used to measure cavity dynamic pressure and reed dynamic displacement are calibrated before each test, the ringtone oscillator assembly produces a sinusoidal driving pressure, with at most, a few small harmonics.",
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"ref": "1999, B. Schweber, “Telephony Tone Generator Rings Long Loops”, in Reed Business Information",
"text": "Introduces LT1684, a ringtone-generator integrated circuit (IC) for telephone systems from Linear Technology in California. Elimination of need for optoisolators; Function of active multipole filter within the IC; Adjustment of cadence, frequency and amplitude information;",
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"ref": "2009, J Kates, R Miller, System and method for providing calling-party identification and/or calling-party or called-party ringback services - US Patent 7,602,901",
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"sense": "sound made by a telephone when ringing",
"word": "着信音"
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"word": "សំឡេងរោទ៍"
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"sense": "sound made by a telephone when ringing",
"word": "ringetone"
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"word": "tono de llamada"
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"word": "రింగ్టోన్"
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"ref": "2006, Alex Turner (lyrics and music), “A Certain Romance”, in Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, performed by Arctic Monkeys",
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"ref": "2012, David Pogue, iPhone: The Missing Manual, page 152",
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