videochat

videochat

See also: video chat

English

Alternative forms

• video chat

Etymology

video +‎ chat

Noun

videochat (countable and uncountable, plural videochats)

1. An audiovisual conversation by means of telecommunication technology.
   • 2012, Richard Harper, The Connected Home: The Future of Domestic Life (page 194)

     In the remainder of the interviews, among families recruited explicitly because of their use of videochat, the interviews were shorter and more focused on the use of communication technologies, and include an observation of a video call […]

Related terms

• videocall
• videoconference

Verb

videochat (third-person singular simple present videochats, present participle videochatting, simple past and past participle videochatted)

1. (intransitive) To communicate via such a conversation.

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Spanish

Noun

videochat m (plural videochats)

1. videochat

Further reading

• “videochat”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014