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Telephone system   /tˈɛləfˌoʊn sˈɪstəm/   Listen
Telephone system

noun
1.
A communication system that transmits sound between distant points.  Synonym: phone system.





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"Telephone system" Quotes from Famous Books



... eyes get the message to your brain, and how did your brain tell your legs to stop walking? We must have in our bodies a kind of telephone system. And that is, in fact, just what we have. Our brain is our "central office"; and our nerves are the wires, running from all parts of our body to the brain, ...
— The Child's Day • Woods Hutchinson
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... the blast and fire effects. Rolling transportation suffered extensive damage. The damage to railroad tracks, and roads was comparatively small, however. The electric power transmission and distribution systems were badly wrecked. The telephone system was approximately 80% damaged, and no service was restored until ...
— The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki • United States
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