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touch-tone definition

☆ touch-tone (tuc̸h′tōn′)

adjective

designating or of a type of telephone that may be used with a service (touch tone) that responds to individual fixed electronic tones activated by corresponding buttons pushed in placing a call

Etymology: < Touch Tone, a former trademark

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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