videocall

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A form of video call — A live audiovisual telecommunication; a phone call with video; a video chat.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounvideocall (plural videocalls)

plural videocalls

  1. alternativeAlternative form of video call.

    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[…]

    2003, Helen McCarthy, Paul Miller, London Calling: How Mobile Technologies Can Transform a City, page 10
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    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[…]

    1993, Rosalyn Moran, The electronic home: social and spatial aspects

    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[…]

    2009, Vic Callaghan, Achilles Kameas, Intelligent Environments 2009, page 441

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APA

videocall. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/videocall

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“videocall.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/videocall. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “videocall,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/videocall.

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