Definitions for landline
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. land line, landlinenoun

   a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits

   "a land line can be wire or fiber optics or microwave"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. landlinenoun

   A fixed telephone communications cable.

2. landlinenoun

   a telephone connected by such a fixed wire, specifically not wireless/mobile.

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1. Landline

   A landline (land line, land-line, main line, home phone, fixed-line, and wireline) is a telephone connection that uses metal wires or optical fiber telephone line for transmission, as distinguished from a mobile cellular network, which uses radio waves for signal transmission.

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1. landline

   A landline is a telephone system that uses a physical, wired connection to transmit communication signals, typically through a network of copper or fiber-optic cables. This traditional telephone system is connected through a vast network laid out underground or undersea, differing from mobile or wireless communication methods.

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1. Landline

   A landline telephone refers to a phone which uses a solid medium telephone line such as a metal wire or fiber optic cable for transmission as distinguished from a mobile cellular line which uses radio waves for transmission. In 2003, the CIA reported approximately 1.263 billion main telephone lines worldwide. China had more than any other country at 350 million and the United States was second with 268 million. The United Kingdom has 23.7 million residential fixed landlines. In 2008, the world had 1.27 billion fixed line subscribers.

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1. landline

   A type of telecommunications line.

   The landline works efficiently.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 2, 2020  

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1. • Telephone Line

How to pronounce landline?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of landline in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of landline in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of landline in a Sentence

1. Amir Rashidi:

   So far, they are shutting down the mobile data and making it really difficult to work with the home connection landline, they are so slow, with a lot of throttling, so it's difficult to work on landline as well.

2. Rakesh Kaushal:

   They are neither landline nor mobile phone numbers, which were initially suspected. But we are investigating further.

3. Facundo Nejamkis:

   One of the explanations, for why in almost all the surveys we failed to calculate the number of votes between Fernandez and Macri, is precisely not having been able to detect the sufficient number of young people. They don't answer the landline or because they just have mobile phones for surfing the web.

4. Chief Executive Nir Sztern:

   Alongside the adverse impact on the cellular operation, (Cellcom) is operating and investing in future growth engines in the landline sector, which we expect over time to lead to growth in revenues and improvement in profitability.

5. Timothy Parlatore:

   He has one of those landline telephones next to his bed, and it has a blue light on it, and it keeps him up at night. So he took the manilla folder and put it over so it would keep the light down so he could sleep at night, it’s just this folder. It says ‘Classified Evening Summary’ on it. It’s not a classification marking. It’s not anything that is controlled in any way. There is nothing illegal about it.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=landline
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Landline
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landline
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=landline