Word info

touch-tone

Speech parts

1. touch-tone - Noun

2. touch-tone - Adjective

Meaning

touch-tone (not comparable)

Relating to a type of telephone with buttons, each of which produces a tone which corresponds to the relevant digit.

A telephone with buttons that produce tones, one for each digit.
a teleconference service for touch-tones only

A tone produced by such a telephone.
software to decode touch-tones

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Tried to call, or at least beep the lord, but didn't have a touch-tone. Common (rapper)

A break-through new technology was the introduction of Touch-Tone signaling using push-button telephones by American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1963. Source: Internet

DTMF was known throughout the Bell System by the trademark Touch-Tone. Source: Internet

Other vendors of compatible telephone equipment called the Touch-Tone feature tone dialing or DTMF, or used their other trade names such as Digitone by Northern Electric Company in Canada. Source: Internet

In 2013, the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the touch-tone phone, the answers to those questions remain palpable at the press of a button. Source: Internet

You can then plug your existing touch-tone telephone into the adapter and use it the same way you would if it were plugged into the wall through a phone jack. Source: Internet

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