TELECONFERENCE

teleconference, teleconferencing

(noun) a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

A contraction of the English: telephone conference. Or, from the Greek tele- (distance) and conference.

Noun

teleconference (plural teleconferences)

A telephone conference, an arranged phone call between more than two parties.

More generally, the live exchange of information among persons and machines remote from one another but linked by a telecommunications system, over telephone, video or other means.

Verb

teleconference (third-person singular simple present teleconferences, present participle teleconferencing, simple past and past participle teleconferenced)

To take part in a teleconference.

Source: Wiktionary



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