"touch-tone" meaning in All languages combined

See touch-tone on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: touchtone [alternative]
Etymology: From the trade name Touch-Tone, 1960. Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} touch-tone (not comparable)
  1. Relating to a type of telephone with buttons, each of which produces a tone which corresponds to the relevant digit. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-touch-tone-en-adj-gs-RsdNT Categories (other): Telephony Disambiguation of Telephony: 26 35 39

Noun [English]

Forms: touch-tones [plural], touchtone [alternative]
Etymology: From the trade name Touch-Tone, 1960. Head templates: {{en-noun}} touch-tone (plural touch-tones)
  1. A telephone with buttons that produce tones, one for each digit.
    Sense id: en-touch-tone-en-noun-1I~YznBn Categories (other): Telephony Disambiguation of Telephony: 26 35 39
  2. A tone produced by such a telephone.
    Sense id: en-touch-tone-en-noun-uEsN6Xpn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English genericized trademarks, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Telephony Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 15 48 Disambiguation of English genericized trademarks: 24 16 60 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 19 20 62 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 27 8 65 Disambiguation of Telephony: 26 35 39
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: rotary dial

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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