What does picturephone mean?
Picturephone means videophone.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
videophone.
The program has twelve picturephones that link Illinois State Psychiatric Institute (ISPI) with Illinois State Pediatric Institute (one city block away) […]
So a long time ago, I was a true believer in picturephones as the logical extension of the telephone. Although the design I suggested for 2001 was clearly fiction, AT&T spent $500 million in designing and manufacturing its picturephone of the early 1970s.
Use picturephone when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Picturephone means videophone.
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The program has twelve picturephones that link Illinois State Psychiatric Institute (ISPI) with Illinois State Pediatric Institute (one city block away) […]
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