viewphone

"Pretty soon, you'll be aware of that when you see a face on your viewphone," Sandy predicted.

Her attempts to read the current Nature were interrupted by the private-line viewphone.

The viewphone lit up, but the screen stayed blank.

To all intents and purposes, I was speaking to a real little girl, as if we were having a viewphone conversation.

It was impossible to judge a person's real size over the viewphone; the camera somehow converted everyone to the same scale.

The orderly was already busy with the viewphone.

I smiled and reached out and patted the viewphone.

And I turned off the viewphone, got up, and walked out, leaving the others gobbling into emptiness behind me.

You will neither contact her in person, by telephone, by viewphone or by messenger.

The first units were moving into position when I put the viewphone call in to Kraj.

"I mean that and I mean that you can"t talk with him on the viewphone."

He stepped to his closed-circuit viewphone.

Sulu felt fear's left-handed cousin start to stir inside his chest, and he pushed in front of the viewphone hastily.

In science fiction literature, names commonly associated with videophones included vidphone, vidfone, visiphone, and viewphone.

Ogger quickly ran to his viewphone and dialed his therapist, his local priest, and his moogie.

She went into her boudoir, sat down at her stenodesk to phone-picking it; rather than the viewphone because its phone was not a viewphone.

He went down to the office on the subjacent floor, wrote the count on a wall chart, eyed its perplexing upswing; then sat at his desk and flipped the viewphone switch.

The viewphone had also completely failed to convey the penetrating quality of those dazzling blue eyes, much the most striking feature of a face that, at the moment, could not be fairly judged for beauty.

Other names for videophone that have been used in English are: Viewphone (the British Telecom equivalent to AT&T's Picturephone), and visiophone, a common French translation that has also crept into limited English usage, as well as over twenty less common names and expressions.