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An instrument for studying the motions of sounding bodies by optical means. It consists of a tube across the end of which is stretched a film of soap solution thin enough to give colored bands, the form and position of which are affected by sonorous vibrations.

Representing sounds; as, phonetic characters; -- opposed to ideographic; as, a phonetic notation. Phonetic spelling, spelling in phonetic characters, each representing one sound only; -- contrasted with Romanic spelling, or that by the use of the Roman alphabet.

In a phonetic manner.

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology.

The science which treats of vocal sounds. J. Peile.

One versed in phonetics; a phonologist.

The act, art, or process of representing sounds by phonetic signs.

To represent by phonetic signs. Lowell.

c 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.

A character or vocal sign representing more than one sound, as read, which is pronounced red or rèd.

A musical instrument in which the tones are produced by flames of hydrogen, or illuminating gas, burning in tubes of different sizes and lengths.

Of or pertaining to pyrrhonism.

The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.

sound by the action of luminous or thermal rays. It is essentially the same as the photophone.

A wireless telephone. -- Ra`di*o*te*leph"o*ny (#), n.

A genus of brachiopods of which some species are still living, while many are found fossil.

A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.

imp. & p. p. of Shine.