telephone set

1. 1.

   electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds

   “I talked to him on the telephone”

   Synonymstelephonephone

   Broaderelectronic equipment

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   Part oftelephone system

   Partsmouthpiecetelephone receiver

Questions about telephone set

What does telephone set mean?

telephone set means "electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds".

What is another word for telephone set?

Close synonyms include telephone, phone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is telephone set a common word?

telephone set is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.