electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds; I talked to him on the telephone
[ Syn: telephone , telephone set ]
(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
[ Syn: speech sound , sound ]
electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear; it was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked