videophone

See also: vidéophone

English

A videophone.

Etymology

From video ‎ phone.

Noun

videophone (plural videophones)

1. A telephone capable of transmitting both audio and video signals in both directions.

   Synonyms: (science fiction) vidphone, viewphone, picturephone, visionphone

   Coordinate terms: (mobile phone) photophone, smartphone, feature phone, beeper, pager, email appliance

   Coordinate terms: (landline phone) videotext terminal, fax machine, internet appliance

   1. (dated) A cellphone with such capability. Used to distinguish from stills-only camera cellphones and camera-less cellphones.

      Coordinate terms: smartphone, featurephone, cameraphone, photophone

Translations

type of telephone

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 視頻電話／视频电话 (shìpín diànhuà), 電視電話／电视电话 (zh) (diànshì diànhuà), 可視電話／可视电话 (zh) (kěshì diànhuà), 視像電話／视像电话 (shìxiàng diànhuà)

• Danish: videotelefon (da) c
• Dutch: beeldtelefoon (nl) m
• Finnish: videopuhelin
• French: visiophone (fr) m
• German: Bildtelefon (de) n
• Hungarian: videotelefon (hu)
• Irish: físeafón m
• Italian: videotelefono (it) m
• Korean: 비디오폰 (bidiopon), 영상전화 (yeongsangjeonhwa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: videotelefon (no) m

  Nynorsk: videotelefon m

• Polish: wideofon
• Portuguese: videofone (pt) m
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: videófono m
• Welsh: fideoffon m