touch-tone

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From the trade name Touch-Tone, 1960.

Adjective[edit]

touch-tone (not comparable)

  1. Relating to a type of telephone with buttons, each of which produces a tone which corresponds to the relevant digit.

Noun[edit]

touch-tone (plural touch-tones)

  1. A telephone with buttons that produce tones, one for each digit.
    a teleconference service for touch-tones only
  2. A tone produced by such a telephone.
    software to decode touch-tones

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