touch-tone
adjective
ˈtəch-ˈtōn 
-ˌtōn
: of, relating to, or being a telephone having push buttons that produce tones corresponding to numbers
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Rotary phones, once a staple in the typical mid-century living room, were largely relegated to dusty basements and landfills following the introduction of the push-button touch-tone phone.
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2025
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2025
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“Touch-tone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/touch-tone. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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