"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: From telephone + -y. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|telephone|y}} telephone + -y Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} telephony (usually uncountable, plural telephonies)
  1. The act of sound transmission via the electromagnetic spectrum. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Telephony 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 (telefoniä) (Kazakh), 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)
    Sense id: en-telephony-en-noun-bhgWCPfL Disambiguation of Telephony: 74 26 Categories (other): Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -phony, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 96 4 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 96 4 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 98 2 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 98 2 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -phony: 93 7 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 93 7 Disambiguation of 'act of sound transmission via the electromagnetic spectrum': 100 0
  2. The study and application of telephone technology. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-telephony-en-noun-Y5eU5Pzt
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: IP telephony, radio telephony, wireless telephony

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "act of sound transmission via the electromagnetic spectrum",
      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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    },
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        "feminine"
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