Touch-tone
adjective
1.
of or relating to a tone-dialing system or a push-button phone operating on tone dialing.
noun
2.
(sometimes initial capital letter) a tone-dialing system.
3.
a telephone utilizing this system.
adjective
1.
of or relating to a telephone dialling system in which each of the buttons pressed generates a tone of a different pitch, which is transmitted to the exchange
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