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Telephony

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

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Call 76% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Telephonic 74% connected

Conveying sound to a great distance.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Telephonic 74% connected

Conveying sound to a great distance.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Telephone 92% connected

An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Agamogenetic noun · 78% connection

Reproducing or produced without sexual union.

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Annunciator noun · 78% connection

an indicator that announces which electrical circuit has been active (as on a telephone switchboard)

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Articulate verb · 78% connection

To utter articulate sounds; to utter the elementary sounds of a language; to enunciate; to speak distinctly.

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Channel noun · 78% connection

a path over which electrical signals can pass; "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company"

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Chattering noun · 78% connection

The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the…

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Clearance noun · 78% connection

The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a stea…

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Contagion noun · 78% connection

That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, an…

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Dissonance noun · 78% connection

A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.

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Elongation noun · 78% connection

Removal to a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance.

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Fecundity noun · 78% connection

The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and…

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Fissiparous adjective · 78% connection

Reproducing by spontaneous fission. See Fission.

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Gemmate adjective · 78% connection

Having buds; reproducing by buds.

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Gemmiparous adjective · 78% connection

Producing buds; reproducing by buds. See Gemmation, 1.

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Gyve verb · 78% connection

To fetter; to shackle; to chain. H () the eighth letter of the English alphabet, is classed among the consonants, and is formed with t…

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Installation noun · 78% connection

the act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes"

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Installing noun · 78% connection

the act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes"

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Installment noun · 78% connection

the act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes"

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Instalment noun · 78% connection

the act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes"

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