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side tone

side tone is the alternative form of sidetone.

Meaning of sidetone

Noun

sidetone (countable and uncountable, plural sidetones)

  1. The effect of sound that is picked up by the telephone's mouthpiece and introduced (at low level) into the earpiece of the same handset, acting as feedback; or a similar effect in radiotelegraphy, public-address systems, etc.

Forms of side tone

pluralside tones

Questions about side tone

What is side tone the alternative form of?
Side tone is the alternative form of sidetone.

Words near side tone in the dictionary

  1. side tables
  2. side talk
  3. side ting
  4. side tings
  5. side to side
  6. side tone
  7. side tool
  8. side tools
  9. side track
  10. side tracks
  11. side triceps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: side tone (page history and authors); sidetone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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