handset

hand +‎ set

• IPA^(key): /ˈhæn(d)sɛt/

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handset (plural handsets)

1. The part of a landline telephone containing both receiver and transmitter (and sometimes dial), held in the hand.
   • 2012, Hannah Richell, The Secrets of the Tides, →ISBN, page 459:

     Helen hears the click of the handset at the other end of the line.

2. A mobile phone.
   • 2003, Geoff Varrall, Roger Belcher, 3G Handset and Network Design, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 311:

     Similarly, the handset can see more than one base station. Because the positions (longitude and latitude) of the base stations/Node Bs are known, then either a Node B or handset can work out the handset’s position.

3. A hand-held device for remote control of a piece of equipment.
   • 2022 February 9, Ben Jones, “Batteries included for future shunters”, in RAIL, number 950, page 56:

     The locomotives can be driven from two positions in the cab or remotely from a radio control handset.

• headset

handset (third-person singular simple present handsets, present participle handsetting, simple past and past participle handset)

1. (typography) To typeset by hand.

   handsetting type

• “handset”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• Hestand, handest, snathed