"telephony" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /təˈlɛf.ə.ni/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-telephony.wav [Southern-England] Forms: telephonies [plural]
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der. Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor. French télé- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́ Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)der. French -phone French téléphonebor. English telephone English -y English telephony From telephone + -y. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|telephone|-y|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der. Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor. French télé- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́ Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)der. French -phone French téléphonebor. English telephone English -y English telephony [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "telephone", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "far", "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "lbor.", "keyword_label" : "Learned borrowing from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "far", "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "turn", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*kʷelh₁-", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "τῆλε", "gloss" : "far away", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword" : "lbor" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "French", "term" : "télé-", "lang" : "fr" }, { "id" : "sound", "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "sound", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "alt" : "*pʰōnā́", "lang_name" : "Proto-Hellenic", "status" : "inline", "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "speak", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*bʰeh₂-", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang" : "grk-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "φωνή", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "French", "term" : "-phone", "lang" : "fr" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "French", "term" : "téléphone", "lang" : "fr" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "telephone", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "-y", "status" : "ambiguous", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "telephony", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="telephony"> From telephone + -y. Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} telephony (usually uncountable, plural telephonies)
  1. The act of sound transmission via the electromagnetic spectrum. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (act of sound transmission via the electromagnetic spectrum): ܚܘܼܛܵܡܠܝܼܠܘܼܬܵܐ (ḳuṭamlīluta) [feminine] (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic), telefonia [feminine] (Catalan), telefoni [common-gender] (Danish), telefonie [feminine] (Dutch), puhelintekniikka (Finnish), telefonía [feminine] (Galician), Telefonie [feminine] (German), Fernsprechwesen [neuter] (German), τηλεφωνία (tilefonía) [feminine] (Greek), teileafónaíocht [feminine] (Irish), telefonia [feminine] (Italian), телефония (telefonıya) (Kazakh), tēlephōnia [feminine] (Latin), telefonija [feminine] (Latvian), telefoni [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), telefoni [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), telefonia [feminine] (Portuguese), telefonie [feminine] (Romanian), телефони́я (telefoníja) [feminine] (Russian), telefonía [feminine] (Spanish), telefoni [common-gender] (Swedish)
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  2. The study and application of telephone technology. Tags: uncountable, usually
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: ciphony, IP telephony, phototelephony, radio telephony, radiotelephony, videotelephony, wireless telephony

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "act of sound transmission via the electromagnetic spectrum",
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      "word": "teileafónaíocht"
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}

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