Redial
Encyclopedia
In telecommunication
, an automatic redial is a service feature that allows the user
to dial, by depressing a single key or a few keys, the most recent telephone number
dialed at that instrument.
Note: Automatic redial is often associated with the telephone
instrument, but may be provided by a PBX, or by the central office. Synonym last number redial. Contrast with automatic calling unit.
Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...
, an automatic redial is a service feature that allows the user
User (telecommunications)
In telecommunications, a user is a person, organization, or other entity that employs the services provided by a telecommunication system, or by an information processing system, for transfer of information....
to dial, by depressing a single key or a few keys, the most recent telephone number
Telephone number
A telephone number or phone number is a sequence of digits used to call from one telephone line to another in a public switched telephone network. When telephone numbers were invented, they were short — as few as one, two or three digits — and were given orally to a switchboard operator...
dialed at that instrument.
Note: Automatic redial is often associated with the telephone
Telephone
The telephone , colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sounds, usually the human voice. Telephones are a point-to-point communication system whose most basic function is to allow two people separated by large distances to talk to each other...
instrument, but may be provided by a PBX, or by the central office. Synonym last number redial. Contrast with automatic calling unit.