Meanings
plural videocalls
- 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 102 more examples
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 aspectsWhen 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
Synonyms & antonyms
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videocall. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/videocall
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