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sidetones

sidetones is the plural 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.

Questions about sidetones

What is sidetones the plural of?
Sidetones is the plural of sidetone.

Words near sidetones in the dictionary

  1. sidetables
  2. Sidetan
  3. Sidetans
  4. Sidetic
  5. sidetone
  6. sidetones
  7. sidetrack
  8. sidetracked
  9. sidetracker
  10. sidetrackers
  11. sidetracking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sidetones (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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