pickup group A group of voice terminal users who can answer calls for each other through the Call Pickup feature. Group members are determined by the System Manager and are usually located in the same work area or perform similar job functions.
priority call An important or urgent call that sends a special
program/reprogram To use your dial pad to assign a telephone number to a personal list item for Abbreviated Dialing.
retrieve To collect voice terminal messages with the Message feature. (Also, with Call Park, to resume a call from an extension other than the one where the call was first placed or received.)
ringer The device that produces the electronic ringing sound in your voice terminal.
stored number A telephone number that has been programmed and stored as a
switch The device that makes connections for all voice and data calls for a network, and also contains software for features. Also known as a system, switching system, or PBX (private branch exchange). (Your switch is an AT&T DEFINITY
Communications System Generic 1 or Generic 3.)
switch features Those features that you can use only if your voice terminal is connected to a DEFINITY Communications System switching system and if the feature is assigned to your voice terminal.
system list One of the 4 types of Abbreviated Dialing lists; programmable only by the System Manager. Contains telephone numbers helpful to all system users, and stores each of those numbers as a
System Manager The person responsible for specifying and managing the operation of features for all the voice and data equipment in your network.
trunk A telecommunications channel between your DEFINITY Generic 1 or Generic 3 and the local or long distance calling network. Trunks of the same kind connecting to the same end points are assigned to the same trunk group.
trunk code A dial code of 1, 2, or 3 digits that you dial to access a trunk group to place an outside call.
27