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To convey or announce by telephone.

A central office in which the wires of telephones may be connected to permit conversation.

A wireless telephone. -- Ra`di*o*te*leph"o*ny (#), n.

xternal passage of the ear. -- Acoustic telegraph, a telegraph making audible signals; a telephone. -- Acoustic vessels, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance.

increase its resistance several times. The anticoherer can be used in conjunction with a telephone.

A telephone transmitter in which a carbon contact is used.

ot.) Tissue composed entirely of parenchyma, and having no woody fiber or ducts. cellular telephone, a portable radio- telephone transmitting and receiving the radio-telephonic signals from one of a group of transmitter-receiver stations so arranged that they provide adequate signal contact for such telephones over a c…

sum. Exchange is in favor of a place when it can be purchased there at or above par. -- Telephone exchange, a central office in which the wires of any two telephones or telephone stations may be connected to permit conversation.

A device utilized in the making of a loud-speaking telephone, depending on the fact that the friction between a metallic point and a moving cylinder of moistened chalk, or a moving slip of paper, on which it rests is diminished by the passage of a current between the point and the moving surface. -- Mo`to*graph"ic (#),…

Colloq. for Telephone.

he arc due to sound waves are obtained for reproduction by means of a selenium cell and a telephone.

current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.

l wire, disk, or ribbon, moved against the pole of a magnet connected electrically with a telephone receiver, or the like.

A message by a telephone. [Recent]

Of or pertaining to the telephone; by the telephone.

By telephonic means or processes; by the use of the telephone.

The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as with the telephone.

n a keyboard. The music is produced by a receiving instrument similar or analogous to the telephone, but not held to the ear. The pitch corresponds with frequency of alternation of current.

A portable form of telethermometer, using a telephone in connection with a differential thermometer.

This apparatus contains the essential features of all the systems now in use. -- Wireless telephone, an apparatus or contrivance for wireless telephony. --Wireless telephony, telephony without wires, usually employing electric waves of high frequency emitted from an oscillator or generator, as in wireless telegraphy. A…