Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A telephone equipped for both audio and video transmission.

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  • noun A telephone capable of transmitting both audio and video signals in both directions.

Etymologies

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video +‎ phone

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Examples

  • The videophone is not new and has been a dream for many years.

    Ojo – The Face of the New Telephone 2007

  • My company 5LINX, has a unique product called the videophone, we were featured as the top story on NBC news, check it out www. seevideophone.com

    Living Our Lives - SpouseBUZZ 2009

  • Along the way he argues that the videophone is a technology that has passed by.

    Times Columnist 2009

  • AMANPOUR: Ron Moreau, in Pakistan, who joins us via this much heralded new piece of equipment called the videophone, there it's even more tense, isn't it, for Americans?

    CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2003 2003

  • AMANPOUR: Ron Moreau, in Pakistan, who joins us via this much heralded new piece of equipment called the videophone, there it's even more tense, isn't it, for Americans?

    CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2003 2003

  • It is because Nic is on this videophone, which is a new device that we are using, and there is always a delay, tends to be a delay in audio.

    CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2001 2001

  • Still, inventors and dreamers keep coming back to the notion that the videophone is the way of the future.

    Computerworld News 2010

  • The videophone was a futuristic device when Fritz Lang used it in 1927 and still futuristic in when Stanley Kubrick used it in 1968 for 2001: A Space Odyssey, and again for Ridley Scott in 1982 in Bladerunner.

    Kris Abel's Tech Life Kris Abel 2010

  • The videophone was a futuristic device when Fritz Lang used it in 1927 and still futuristic in when Stanley Kubrick used it in 1968 for 2001: A Space Odyssey, and again for Ridley Scott in 1982 in Bladerunner.

    Kris Abel's Tech Life Kris Abel 2010

  • Still, inventors and dreamers keep coming back to the notion that the videophone is the way of the future.

    Computerworld News 2010

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