Phonograph(n.) A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.
Phonograph(n.) 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.
Phonographer(n.) One versed or skilled in phonography.
Phonographer(n.) One who uses, or is skilled in the use of, the phonograph. See Phonograph, 2.
Phonographic(a.) Alt. of Phonographical
Phonographical(a.) Of or pertaining to phonography; based upon phonography.
Phonographical(a.) Of or pertaining to phonograph; done by the phonograph.
Phonographically(adv.) In a phonographic manner; by means of phonograph.
Words within phonographic