Definition of Telephone unit

1. Noun. A unit of measurement for telephone use.

Generic synonyms: Unit, Unit Of Measurement
Specialized synonyms: Erlang

Lexicographical Neighbors of Telephone Unit

telephone message
telephone number
telephone numbers
telephone operator
telephone operators
telephone order
telephone plug
telephone pole
telephone poles
telephone receiver
telephone service
telephone set
telephone system
telephone tag
telephone theory
telephone unit (current term)
telephone wire
telephoned
telephoneless
telephonelike
telephoner
telephoners
telephones
telephonic
telephonically
telephonies
telephoning
telephonist
telephonists
telephony

Literary usage of Telephone unit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Engines of the Human Body: Being the Substance of Christmas Lectures by Arthur Keith (1920)
"46 a nerve and telephone unit are contrasted. In a telephone system a unit is ... These four elements make up a telephone unit. Each subscriber is connected ..."

2. Circuits of Victory by Abraham Lincoln Lavine (1921)
"November, 1918, is furnished for your information as you were a member of the telephone unit referred to therein during the period mentioned: "Telephone ..."

3. Circuits of Victory by Abraham Lincoln Lavine (1921)
"November, 1918, is furnished for your information as you were a member of the telephone unit referred to therein during the period mentioned: "Telephone ..."

4. Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities, State and Local edited by Patrick D. Cannon (1998)
"A4.31.9(1) A public text telephone (TTY) may be an integrated text telephone (TTY) pay telephone unit or a conventional portable text telephone (TTY) that ..."

5. Americans With Disabilities Act: Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings edited by Barry Leonard (2000)
"A4.31.9flJ A public text telephone (TTY) may be an integrated text telephone (TTY) pay telephone unit or a conventional portable text telephone (TTY) that ..."

6. Defending Secrets, Sharing Data: New Locks and Keys for Electronic Information (1993)
"A successor, the Secure telephone unit II (STU-II), was developed by NSA in the early 1980s for protecting classified information up to Top Secret ..."

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