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Pertaining to the Siphonostomata.

Any parasitic entomostracan of the tribe Siphonostomata.

Having but one sound, as the drum. [R.]

An instrument, proposed by Edison, for greatly intensifying speech. It consists of a phonograph diaphragm so arranged that its action opens and closes valves, producing synchronous air blasts sufficient to operate a larger diaphragm with greater amplitude of vibration.

The part which in some Siphonophora bears the male gonophores.

A pneumatic reproducer for a phonograph, controlled by the recording stylus on the principle of the relay. It produces much clearer and louder tones than does the ordinary vibrating disk reproducer.

An instrument combining a cinematograph and a phonograph so that the moving figures on the screen are accompanied by the appropriate sounds.

ock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.

A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth. See Siphonophora.

A wearing off or away. Phonograms which by process long-continued detrition have reached a step of extreme simplicity. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

A form of phonographic recorder and reproducer adapted for use in dictation, as in business.

One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora.

One of the branches bearing the female gonophores, in certain Siphonophora.

Plain harmony, as opposed to polyphony. See Homophonous.

One of the flat, leaflike, protective zooids, covering other zooids of certain Siphonophora.

Acalephæ; one of the classes of coelenterates, including the Hydroidea, Discophora, and Siphonophora.

A sheath which surrounds the base of the lasso cells in the Siphonophora.

A combined animated-picture machine and phonograph in which sounds appropriate to the scene are automatically uttered by the latter instrument.

A machine combining a kinetoscope and a phonograph synchronized so as to reproduce a scene and its accompanying sounds.

A word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of brevity, represents a word; as, |, i. e., t, for it. Cf. Grammalogue.