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picturephone

picturephone noun: videophone.

Noun

picturephone (plural picturephones)

  1. videophone
    • The program has twelve picturephones that link Illinois State Psychiatric Institute (ISPI) with Illinois State Pediatric Institute (one city block away) […]1975, Rashid Bashshur, Patricia A. Armstrong, Zakhour I. Youssef, Telemedicine
    • So a long time ago, I was a true believer in picturephones as the logical extension of the telephone. Although the design I suggested for 2001 was clearly fiction, AT&T spent $500 million in designing and manufacturing its picturephone of the early 1970s.2013, A. Michael Noll, Highway of Dreams

Forms of picturephone

pluralpicturephones

Origin of picturephone

From picture + phone; a trademark of the 1960s for the earliest such device.

Questions about picturephone

What does picturephone mean?
Picturephone means videophone.
What part of speech is picturephone?
Picturephone is a noun.
What is the plural of picturephone?
The plural of picturephone is picturephones.

Words near picturephone in the dictionary

  1. picturelike
  2. picturely
  3. picturemaker
  4. picturemakers
  5. picturemaking
  6. picturephone
  7. picturephones
  8. picturer
  9. picturers
  10. pictures
  11. pictures or it didn't happen

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