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Teleconferencing

Definition: Teleconferencing

Teleconferencing

Noun

1. A conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Teleconferencing

Synonym: teleconference (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Teleconferencing

Specialty definitions using "teleconferencing": audiographic teleconferencing, audiographicselectronic whiteboardingIMTC, International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortiummulticast backbonescreen sharingVTC. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Teleconferencing

DomainTitle

References

  • ACT Teleconferencing, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • ACT TELECONFERENCING, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • Executive Guide to Video Teleconferencing (reference)

  • Guide to Teleconferencing and Distance Learning (reference)

  • Telecommunications and Teleconferencing in Education and Training: A Selected Bibliography (Educational Technology Selected Bibliography Series, Vol) (reference)

  • Teleconferencing (Benchmark Papers in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Teleconferencing

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Switzerland

Opportunities are especially good for U.S. mobile communication systems, data compression products, network equipment, cable and ISDN modems, interfaces, fiber optic systems, teleconferencing equipment, microwave equipment and supplies. (references)

Indonesia

In Indonesia, PAS speakers, PAS-organized press briefings and dissemination of information to the media, satellite television and teleconferencing programs help promote understanding of measures needed to promote Indonesia's commercial climate. (references)

Switzerland

In addition to voice services, other areas of opportunity for U.S. operators include: electronic mail, teleconferencing, the leased line business, data transmission, voice and image compression, frame relay, virtual private networks, outsourcing, mobile and radio services. (references)

Travel

Colombia

Teleconferencing facilities are available. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Teleconferencing

"Teleconferencing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 62.50% of the time. "Teleconferencing" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)62.5%5157,705
Noun (singular)25%2245,945
Noun (common)12.5%1339,140
                    Total100.00%8N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Teleconferencing

Expressions using "teleconferencing": audiographic teleconferencing international Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium video teleconferencing. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Teleconferencing

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

teleconferencing

321

video teleconferencing

83

audio teleconferencing

61

teleconferencing services

60

cheap teleconferencing

45

teleconferencing equipment

26

teleconferencing service

17

teleconferencing company

15

teleconferencing system

14

flat rate teleconferencing

13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Teleconferencing

Language Translations for "teleconferencing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

"信会议. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

videovergadering (confravision meeting, video teleconference, video teleconferencing, video-conference). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τηλεεικονοδιάσκεψη (confravision meeting, video teleconference, video teleconferencing, video-conference). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eleconferencingtay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

организация телеконференций. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

teleconfiriendo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Teleconferencing

Derivations

Words beginning with "teleconferencing": teleconferencings. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Teleconferencing"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "teleconferencing" (pronounced te'lukÄ"nfrunsing)
10-k Ä" n f r u n s i ngconferencing, videoconferencing.
5-u n s i ngbalancing, distancing, experiencing, influencing, licensing, outdistancing, rebalancing, referencing, sentencing, sequencing, silencing.
4-n s i ngadvancing, announcing, bouncing, commencing, condensing, convincing, dancing, denouncing, dispensing, enhancing, expensing, fencing, financing, freelancing, glancing, Lancing, lensing, mensing, mincing, pouncing, prancing, pronouncing, refinancing, renouncing, rinsing, romancing, sensing, trouncing, unconvincing, wincing.
3-s i ngaccessing, acquiescing, addressing, affixing, amassing, annexing, assessing, basing, blessing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, compressing, confessing, conversing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispersing, displacing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enticing, erasing, expressing, facing, faxing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, lapsing, leasing, loosing, massing, menacing, messing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, practicing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pulsing, racing, reassessing, recessing, redressing, reducing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, sacrificing, seducing, servicing, showcasing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, unceasing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Teleconferencing

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-e-e-f-g-i-l-n-n-n-o-r-t"

-3 letters: nonreflecting.

-4 letters: concentering, conferencing, electrogenic, reconnecting.

-5 letters: contingence, electioneer, nonelectric.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-e-e-f-g-i-l-n-n-n-o-r-t"
 

+1 letter: teleconferencings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Teleconferencing


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 65 6C 65 63 6F 6E 66 65 72 65 6E 63 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100101 01101100 01100101 01100011 01101111 01101110 01100110 01100101 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100011 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#108 &#101 &#99 &#111 &#110 &#102 &#101 &#114 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 006C 0065 0063 006F 006E 0066 0065 0072 0065 006E 0063 0069 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54717871698180727184718069758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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