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
Examples
Tried to call, or at least beep the lord, but didn't have a touch-tone.
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.
DTMF was known throughout the Bell System by the trademark Touch-Tone.
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.
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.
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.