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

One versed or skilled in phonography.

Of or pertaining to phonography; based upon phonography.

In a phonographic manner; by means of phonograph.

Phonographer.

The art of constructing, or using, the phonograph.

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.

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.

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

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 combining form from Gr. sound, tone; as, phonograph, phonology.

A record of sounds made by a phonograph.

ions, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.

t for writing. See Style, n., 1. That needle-shaped part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electronic) which co…