Telephony \Te*leph"o*ny\, n.
   The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as
   with the telephone.
   [1913 Webster]

	

	telephony
     n : transmitting speech at a distance [syn: telephone]

	

	telephony
     
         Communication, often two-way, of spoken
        information, by means of electrical signals carried by wires
        or radio waves.  The term was used to indicate transmission of
        the voice, as distinguished from telegraphy (done in Morse
        code and usually called "continuous wave" or CW
        transmission), radio teletypewriter (RTTY) transmission (also
        called FSK for "Frequency Shift Keying", the modulation
        scheme used by such machines), and later, facimile.
     
        (1995-03-14)