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videocall en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of video call.
   alt of video call
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

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