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touch-tone

[tuhch-tohn]
–adjective
1. of or pertaining to a tone-dialing system or a push-button phone operating on tone dialing.
–noun
2. (sometimes initial capital letter) a tone-dialing system.
3. a telephone utilizing this system.
Also, touchtone.


Origin:
1955–60, Americanism
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touch-tone also touch·tone   (tŭch'tōn')
adj.  Of, relating to, or being a telephone with which the user places calls by pressing pushbuttons that generate and transmit tones of differing pitch, these tones corresponding to the digits of the number being called.
n.  A touch-tone telephone.
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