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Definition: Teleconferencing |
TeleconferencingNoun1. 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: TeleconferencingSynonym: teleconference (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Teleconferencing |
| Specialty definitions using "teleconferencing": audiographic teleconferencing, audiographics ♦ electronic whiteboarding ♦ IMTC, International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium ♦ multicast backbone ♦ screen sharing ♦ VTC. (references) |
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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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 62.5% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "teleconferencing": audiographic teleconferencing ♦ international Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium ♦ video teleconferencing. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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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Words beginning with "teleconferencing": teleconferencings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "teleconferencing" (pronounced te'lukÄ"nfrunsing) |
| 10 | -k Ä" n f r u n s i ng | conferencing, videoconferencing. |
| 5 | -u n s i ng | balancing, distancing, experiencing, influencing, licensing, outdistancing, rebalancing, referencing, sentencing, sequencing, silencing. |
| 4 | -n s i ng | advancing, 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 ng | accessing, 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. | ||
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. | |
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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)T e l e c o n f e r e n c i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006C 0065 0063 006F 006E 0066 0065 0072 0065 006E 0063 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54717871698180727184718069758073 |
| 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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