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conferencing

conferencing

9 3.7
Holding meetings by audio or video with people in different places
  • noun
  • /ˈkɒnfərənsɪŋ/
  • Texting
translation icon : videoconferencia
  • Video conferencing has allowed businesses to connect with clients from around the world without traveling.
  • video conferencing
  • Web conferencing
  • online conferencing

So Google Meet is the video conferencing app, kind of like Zoom.

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Examples

  • The supervisor of student teachers must take advantage of conferencing and look to those conferences as "teachable moments."

    Academic text (1994)
  • In our opinion, video conferencing will be the wave of the future for online counseling.

    Academic text (2004)
  • Think how far video conferencing has come in the last decade.

  • So Google Meet is the video conferencing app, kind of like Zoom.

  • We use a video conferencing call, a Zoom call.

  • So I'm sitting in front of my big iMac computer screen video conferencing with my boss.

  • Counselors who are going to use video conferencing must have a high-speed connection to the internet.

    Academic text (2004)
  • VAX Notes Conferencing is a text-based conferencing system in which people in different locations can conduct online conferences.

    Academic text (2008)
  • However, reluctantly, I must admit that there are times when video-conferencing administrative meetings are helpful and even necessary.

    Academic text (2001)
  • WMHO's distance learning program uses innovative technology, including two-way, real-time video conferencing, computers, and in-field, interactive, wearable technology.

    Academic text (2002)

Synonyms

conference call
vsconferencing
62 3.0

A phone call where more than two people talk, usually for work

is a wider process including audio and video meetings not only phone calls
teleconference
vsconferencing
10 4.4

A meeting with people in different places using video or phone

is the overall process of running meetings through technology rather than the event
videoconferencing
vsconferencing
  • Texting
2 3.4

A way of having meetings with video and sound over the internet

is broader covering meetings by audio or video not only internet video
teleconferencing
vsconferencing
1 3.9

A meeting held using video or phone links between people in different places

is the general act of holding meetings using audio or video technology
telecon
vsconferencing
  • Jargon
4.9

A meeting held by phone or video link for people in different places

is the neutral term for the same remote meeting process

How Large

webinar
  • Texting
16 3.9
conferencing
  • Texting
9 3.7
videophone
7 4.0
phone call
1.0

Surface Forms

conferencing singular
conferencings plural

Morphology

conferencing = conference (semi-transparent) = confer + ence + ing

The word is regularly formed from conference + -ing, but the specialized technology-mediated sense is only partly predictable from the base form.

Etymology

Conferencing comes from an old idea of 'bringing together': the parts con- mean 'together' and ferre means 'to bring'. So conferencing is the act of bringing people together for a meeting, now often by audio or video to connect them in different places.