teleconference

Meanings

Noun

• A telephone conference, an arranged phone call between more than two parties.
• More generally, the live exchange of information among persons and machines remote from one another but linked by a telecommunications system, over telephone, video or other means.

Verb

• To take part in a teleconference.

Origin

• A contraction of the English: telephone conference. Or, from the Greek tele- (distance) and conference.