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touch-tone

Syllabification: (touch-tone)
(also Touch-Tone)
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Definition of touch-tone

adjective

  • (of a telephone) having push buttons and generating tones to dial rather than pulses.
  • (of a service) accessed or controlled by the tones generated by touch-tone these telephones.

noun

trademark
  • a telephone of this type.
  • one of the set of tones generated by touch-tone telephones.

touch-tone in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of touch-tone in the British & World English dictionary