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touch-tone

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By genericization from the trade name Touch-Tone, 1960.

adjective touchtone

  1. not comparable Relating to a type of telephone with buttons, each of which produces a tone which corresponds to the relevant digit.

noun touch-tones · touchtone

  1. A telephone with buttons that produce tones, one for each digit. a teleconference service for touch-tones only
  2. A tone produced by such a telephone. software to decode touch-tones

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"touch-tone." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/touch-tone. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"touch-tone." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/touch-tone.

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@misc{touch_tone_2026,
  title = {touch-tone},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/touch-tone},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}