Electronic vs Trimphone - What's the difference?
electronic | trimphone |
(physics, chemistry): Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
Operating on the physical behavior of electrons, especially in semiconductors.
Generated by an electronic device.
Of or pertaining to the Internet.
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(UK) A luxury telephone of the 1960s with a then-innovative electronic ringer and illuminated dial.
* 1983 , New Scientist (volume 98, number 1353, 14 April 1983)
* 1986 , Barry Strickland-Hodge, Barbara Allan, Medical information: a profile (page 54)
As an adjective electronic
is electronic.As a noun trimphone is
(uk) a luxury telephone of the 1960s with a then-innovative electronic ringer and illuminated dial.electronic
English
Adjective
(-)citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
Derived terms
(electronic)Statistics
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Noun
(en noun)- Song thrushes normally have a large song repertoire, and Slater suggests that the trimphone sound has been taken up because it is sufficiently similar to the normal songs to be learned and imitated
- While an acoustic coupler can be used with ordinary telephones, it cannot be used with modern trimphones