Touch-Tone

Touch-Tone
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— used for a telephone having push buttons that produce tones corresponding to numbers

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/tuch"tohn'/, adj.
1. of or pertaining to a tone-dialing system or a push-button phone operating on tone dialing.
n.
2. (sometimes cap.) a tone-dialing system.
3. a telephone utilizing this system.
Also, touchtone.
[1955-60, Amer.]

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touch-tone «TUHCH TOHN», adjective.
having or using push buttons (in place of a rotary dial) to activate a system of distinct tones that dial a phone number.

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1.
(also Touch-Tone) adj. (of a telephone) having push buttons and generating tones to dial rather than pulses
■ (of a service) accessed or controlled by the tones generated by these telephones
2.
n. trademark a telephone of this type
■ one of the set of tones generated by these telephones

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/ˈtʌʧˈtoʊn/ adj, always used before a noun
: having numbered buttons that produce different sounds when they are pushed

a touch-tone phone

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ˈTouch-Tone f16 [Touch-Tone] ™ adjective
(of a telephone or telephone system) producing different sounds when different numbers are pushed

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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