phone

A rotary-dial phone

Meanings

Noun

  • A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc.
  • A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.

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Origin

  • ; attested by 1884.
  • From Ancient Greek φωνή ("sound").

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