videophone
noun
vid·eo·phone
ˈvi-dē-ə-ˌfōn 
: a telephone that can transmit video as well as audio signals so that users can see each other
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In 2020, a study in Applied Animal Behaviour Science tested whether a pet videophone playing calming sounds and videos could lower stress in 47 shelter dogs.
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
But most of all, videophone equipment was considered too expensive for most people for their private use.
—Thomas Wiegand, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2011
So the final piece of the videophone tech puzzle is a means for compression.
—Thomas Wiegand, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2011
To connect directly to a crisis counselor in American Sign Language, call 1-800-985-5990 from your videophone.
—Richard Eisenberg, Fortune Well, 6 Sep. 2024
About 20,000 videophone contacts in American Sign Language were made, and 1.2 million calls were answered by the Veterans Crisis Line through 988’s Press 1 option.
—Maya Davis, CNN, 16 July 2024
Then came the videophone.
—Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 4 May 2021
And what happens now is that everyone has a videophone in their pocket, and most of us rarely use them outside.
—The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2021
The first crude cameraphone transmitted images in 1927; by the 1960s, AT&T previewed a fully functioning landline videophone, purveying live imaging two ways.
—Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
But most of all, videophone equipment was considered too expensive for most people for their private use.
—Thomas Wiegand, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2011
So the final piece of the videophone tech puzzle is a means for compression.
—Thomas Wiegand, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2011
To connect directly to a crisis counselor in American Sign Language, call 1-800-985-5990 from your videophone.
—Richard Eisenberg, Fortune Well, 6 Sep. 2024
About 20,000 videophone contacts in American Sign Language were made, and 1.2 million calls were answered by the Veterans Crisis Line through 988’s Press 1 option.
—Maya Davis, CNN, 16 July 2024
Then came the videophone.
—Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 4 May 2021
And what happens now is that everyone has a videophone in their pocket, and most of us rarely use them outside.
—The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2021
The first crude cameraphone transmitted images in 1927; by the 1960s, AT&T previewed a fully functioning landline videophone, purveying live imaging two ways.
—Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021
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“Videophone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/videophone. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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videophone
noun
vid·eo·phone
ˈvid-ē-ə-ˌfōn
: a telephone equipped for transmission of a picture as well as sound so that users can see each other
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