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telepoint

telepoint noun: a base station to which users of early mobile phones could connect in order to place (but not receive) calls.

Noun

telepoint (plural telepoints)

  1. A base station to which users of early mobile phones could connect in order to place (but not receive) calls.
    • When it started in September, Phonepoint had 174 telepoints or public base stations […] Ferranti has a more intensive network, with 300 telepoints concentrated around London […]1989 November 4, New Scientist, volume 124, number 1689, page 38
    • BT has also been prevented from holding a majority share of a telepoint operator.1991, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Sixth International Conference on Mobile Radio and Personal Communications

Forms of telepoint

pluraltelepoints

Origin of telepoint

From tele- + point. A marketing coinage.

Questions about telepoint

What does telepoint mean?
Telepoint means a base station to which users of early mobile phones could connect in order to place (but not receive) calls.
What part of speech is telepoint?
Telepoint is a noun.
What is the plural of telepoint?
The plural of telepoint is telepoints.

Words near telepoint in the dictionary

  1. teleplastic
  2. teleplay
  3. teleplays
  4. teleplaywright
  5. teleplaywrights
  6. telepoint
  7. telepointer
  8. telepointers
  9. telepoints
  10. telepolariscope
  11. telepolariscopes

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