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Reflecting sound. [R.] "Phonocamptic objects." Derham.

A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound. Phonograms are of three kinds: (1) Verbal signs, which stand for entire words; (2) Syllabic signs, which stand for the articulations of which words are composed; (3) Alphabetic signs, or letters, which represent the elementary sounds into which the syll…

A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.

A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.

feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, haüynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; -- called also clinkstone.

The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. Also, a treatise on sounds.

An instrument for measuring sounds, as to their intensity, or the frequency of the vibrations.

An instrument in which motion is produced by the vibrations of a sounding body.

An instrument for observing or exhibiting the motions or properties of sounding bodies; especially, an apparatus invented by König for testing the quality of musical strings.

the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character.

ic arc and a camera, by which a series of photographs of the variations of the arc due to sound waves are obtained for reproduction by means of a selenium cell and a telephone.

An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of rays of light. A. G. Bell.

An instrument for measuring vocal sounds. Whewell.

Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.

The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.

isting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ. "Tunable as sylvan pipe." Milton. Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe. Shak.

Emitting a high, shrill sound.

A light, repeated sound; a pattering, as of the rain. "The pitapat of a pretty foot." Dryden.

To make a pattering sound; to murmur; as, pittering streams. [Obs.] R. Greene.

A sound like that of alternating light beats. Also, a pattering of words.