telephony

[tuh-lef-uh-nee] /təˈlɛf ə ni/

noun

the construction or operation of telephones or telephonic systems.

a system of telecommunications in which telephonic equipment is employed in the transmission of speech or other sound between points, with or without the use of wires.

Origin

1825-35; telephone + -y³

Examples from the web for telephony

Among other things, this episode has been an examination of the advantages and ills of home telephony.
On the face of it, file-swapping and telephony have little in common.
Already, mobile telephony is transforming the landscape.
Ability to read standard telephony color code and to distinguish between color-coded wires.
Compressed variants are widely used for telephony and other low-bandwidth applications.
Designs voice networks and integrates telephony hardware and network services.

British Dictionary definitions for telephony

telephony

/tɪˈlɛfənɪ/

noun

a system of telecommunications for the transmission of speech or other sounds

Word Origin and History for telephony

1835, "a system of signaling by musical sounds;" from 1876 as "the art of working a telephone;" see tele- + -phone.

telephony in Technology

communications
Communication, often two-way, of spoken information, by means of electrical signals carried by wires or radio waves. The term was used to indicate transmission of the voice, as opposed to telegraphy (done in Morse code and usually called "continuous wave" or CW transmission), radio teletypewriter (RTTY) transmission (also called FSK for "Frequency Shift Keying", the modulation scheme used by such machines), and later, facimile.
(1995-03-14)

Encyclopedia Article for telephony

telephone

instrument designed for simultaneous two-way voice communication and the technological system through which it is employed. It is a central part of modern telecommunication.

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