PHONOGRAPH

Etymology

Noun

phonograph (plural phonographs)

A device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe.

(British, historical) A device that records or plays sound from cylinder records.

(North America, historical) A record player.

(dated) A character or symbol used to represent a sound, especially one used in phonography.

Synonyms

• (cylinder player): talking phonograph

• (turntable): gramophone (British), record player

Verb

phonograph (third-person singular simple present phonographs, present participle phonographing, simple past and past participle phonographed)

(transitive, dated) To record for playback by phonograph.

(transitive, dated) To transcribe into phonographic symbols.

Source: Wiktionary

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Pho"no*graph, n. Etym: [Phono- + -graph.]

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

2. (Physics)

Definition: An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration, and reproduce the sound.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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