telephoneticsn.
/ˌtɛlᵻfəˈnɛtɪks/, U.S. /ˌtɛləfoʊˈnɛdɪks/, /ˌtɛləfəˈnɛdɪks/ rare.
The use of the telephone; communication over the telephone. Formerly also: †a system of signalling or communication by sounds (obsolete).
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun]
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1877 Funny Folks 11 Aug. 42/2 While the telephone is being cried up, it may as well be recalled that..Bishop Wilkins..suggested a language ‘consisting only of tunes and musical tones’. Here was the first step to telephonetics.
1877 Daily News 30 Nov. 5/1 The general public..must apparently be content for the present to indulge in telephonetics only between..10 p.m. and 10 a.m.
1893 Church Q. Rev. Oct. 242 There was also what may be almost styled a code of telephonetics among the Benedictines, who understood what the Abbot meant when he jingled his spoons.
2009 K. Shah & A. D'Souza Advertising & Promotions i. i. 34 A course in Telephonetics tutored students in the art of achieving long distance intimacy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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