Meaning Of The Word Touch-tone

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Touch-tone Meaning

Touch-tone Definition
Touch-tone Definition

What's The Definition Of Touch-tone?

touch-tone
A touch-tone phone has numbered buttons that make different sounds when you press them. Some automatic phone services can only be used with this kind of phone.

touch-tone in American English
designating or of a type of telephone that may be used with a service ( touch tone) that responds to individual fixed electronic tones activated by corresponding buttons pushed in placing a call
adjective: of or pertaining to a tone-dialing system or a push-button phone operating on tone dialing
noun: a tone-dialing system

touch-tone in British English
adjective: of or relating to a telephone dialling system in which each of the buttons pressed generates a tone of a different pitch, which is transmitted to the exchange

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