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Sidetone vs Sidebone - What's the difference?

sidetone | sidebone |

As nouns the difference between sidetone and sidebone

is that sidetone is the effect of sound that is picked up by the telephone’s mouthpiece and introduced (at low level) into the earpiece of the same handset, acting as feedback while sidebone is a morbid growth or deposit of bony matter at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.

sidetone

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (telephony) The effect of sound that is picked up by the telephone’s mouthpiece and introduced (at low level) into the earpiece of the same handset, acting as feedback.

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    sidebone

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.
    • (Webster 1913)