On- and off-hook
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on-and-off-hook-210-3688698
title:
On- and off-hook
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In telephony, on-hook and off-hook are two states of a communication circuit. On subscriber telephones the states are produced by placing the handset onto or off the hookswitch. Placing the circuit into the off-hook state is also called seizing the line. Off-hook originally referred to the condition that prevailed when telephones had a separate earpiece (receiver), which hung from its switchhook until the user initiated a telephone call by removing it. When off hook the weight of the receiver no
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A telephone respectively off- and on-line
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-_and_off-hook
date created:
2002-02-25T15:43:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T20:10:55Z
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