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telephonic, a.|tɛlɪˈfɒnɪk|
[In earlier use, f. Gr. τῆλε (tele-) + ϕωνή voice + -ic: in later use, f. telephone n. + -ic.]
Transmitting, or relating to the transmission of, sound to a distance. †a. Applied to a system of signalling by musical sounds: cf. telephony 1. Obs. b. Of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or conveyed by a telephone.
1834Wilson New Dict. Mus. 259 Telephonic Sounds, a musical language invented by M. Sudré..for the purposes of conversation,..the communication of military or naval orders [etc.] to any distance. 1835Musical Library Aug. Suppl. 78 This Telephonic system is one of the most ingenious contrivances we ever witnessed. 1840Wheatstone Let. in Cooke Electr. Telegraph (1857) I. 114 The most efficient..means of establishing a telegraphic (or rather a telephonic) communication between two remote points. 1877Daily News 30 Nov. 5/1 We do not exactly anticipate that telephonic offices will have to be superadded by the Post Office to its existing arrangements. 1878G. B. Prescott Sp. Telephone (1879) 17 In the summer of 1876 Professor A. G. Bell..exhibited a telephonic apparatus. Ibid. 39 Mr. Edison has recently invented a telephonic repeater, which is designed to be used..for increasing the distance over which [the telephone] may be made available. 1892Montreal Weekly Gaz. 21 July 8/7 The Public may now obtain telephonic communication over its long distance metallic circuit lines.
fig.1884J. Tait Mind in Matter (1892) 99 Mind segregates itself..from the matter..on whose telephonic powers it depends for intercourse with the world.
Hence teleˈphonically adv., in the manner of or by means of a telephone.
1878G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone vi. 226 Stations could exchange business telephonically. 1879S. P. Thompson in Nature XXI. 180 Sounds transmitted telephonically. 1882Pall Mall G. 1 May 4 It is connected telephonically with the hotel at Dalmally. |