conferencing
conferencing — noun
1. running or joining a meeting where the people involved sit in different location
running or joining a meeting where the people involved sit in different locations and connect by phone, by computer, or through a video link rather than meeting face to face.
Mayumi set up the video conferencing system before the team in Berlin joined the call.
compound: video conferencing
Since the pandemic, our company has relied on conferencing for almost every weekly review.
The hospital uses audio conferencing to let specialists discuss patients across three rural clinics.
Web conferencing has cut our travel costs by nearly half this year.
Cyrus complained that the conferencing kept freezing whenever more than ten people joined.
- teleconferencing
older term, originally phone-based; now overlaps with video
- video calling
more informal, usually for one-to-one or small groups
- remote meetings
describes the event rather than the technology or activity
- in-person meeting
everyone physically present in the same room
文法句型
video conferencing
audio conferencing
web conferencing
用法筆記
Almost always uncountable and most common as a modifier in fixed compounds (video / audio / web / tele- conferencing). Standalone use without one of those modifiers is far rarer and usually refers to the general practice.