A conference held by telephone. An arranged phone call between more than two parties. / (by extension) Any multi-party telephone call.

(intransitive, telecommunications) To hold or take part in a video conference.

(telecommunications) A conference held by video link; an arranged video phone call between more than two parties.

(countable, derogatory) A form of academic conference which is run for other than academic purposes and which does not meet normal academic standards.

press conference

plural of conference-goer

Alternative form of conferencegoer

(Scouting) A usually informal conference between a youth Scout and his Scoutmaster, held as a requirement for rank advancement to a specific rank, that is intended to help prepare for the Scout's board of review by evaluating the Scout in certain ways.

plural of conference matrix

(mathematics) A square matrix C with 0 on the diagonal and +1 and −1 off the diagonal, such that CᵀC is a multiple of the identity matrix I.