"touch-tone" meaning in All languages combined

See touch-tone on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Etymology: From the trade name Touch-Tone, 1960. Etymology templates: {{m|en|Touch-Tone}} Touch-Tone 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 Categories (topical): Telephony
    Sense id: en-touch-tone-en-adj-gs-RsdNT Disambiguation of Telephony: 29 38 32
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: touchtone

Noun [English]

Forms: touch-tones [plural]
Etymology: From the trade name Touch-Tone, 1960. Etymology templates: {{m|en|Touch-Tone}} Touch-Tone Head templates: {{en-noun}} touch-tone (plural touch-tones)
  1. A telephone with buttons that produce tones, one for each digit. Categories (topical): Telephony
    Sense id: en-touch-tone-en-noun-1I~YznBn Disambiguation of Telephony: 29 38 32
  2. A tone produced by such a telephone. Categories (topical): Telephony
    Sense id: en-touch-tone-en-noun-uEsN6Xpn Disambiguation of Telephony: 29 38 32 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English genericized trademarks, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 13 48 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 30 14 56 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 28 17 55 Disambiguation of English genericized trademarks: 25 15 61 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 27 17 56
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: touchtone Related terms: rotary dial

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