videocall

English

Etymology

video- +‎ call

Noun

videocall (plural videocalls)

  1. A kind of telephone call accompanied by video imagery.
    • 1993, Rosalyn Moran, The electronic home: social and spatial aspects:
      The possibility of having the private sphere invaded by a videocall may change the perception of the home as a safe, private, "back stage" area and result in maintenance of a public persona in the home […]
    • 2003, Helen McCarthy, Paul Miller, London Calling: How Mobile Technologies Can Transform a City (page 10)
      Once simple handsets, now owned by 75 per cent of Britons, are undergoing a metamorphosis into a sophisticated wireless device which enables users to make videocalls […]
    • 2009, Vic Callaghan, Achilles Kameas, Intelligent Environments 2009 (page 441)
      When he sits on the sofa in front of the television the call is transferred on the screen and audio system (automatically or after vocal/GUI/gesture confirmation depending on the active profile) becoming potentially also a videocall […]

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