picturephone

English

Etymology

picture +‎ phone; a trademark of the 1960s for the earliest such device.

Noun

picturephone (plural picturephones)

  1. videophone
    • 1975, Rashid Bashshur, Patricia A. Armstrong, Zakhour I. Youssef, Telemedicine:
      The program has twelve picturephones that link Illinois State Psychiatric Institute (ISPI) with Illinois State Pediatric Institute (one city block away) […]
    • 2013, A. Michael Noll, Highway of Dreams:
      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.
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