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- 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.
- Phonographist - n. - Phonographer.
- Phonography - n. - A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.
- Phonography - n. - A representation of sounds by distinctive characters; commonly, a system of shorthand writing invented by Isaac Pitman, or a modification of his system, much used by reporters.
- Phonography - n. - The art of constructing, or using, the phonograph.
- Stylus - n. - The needle-like device used to cut the grooves which record the sound on the original disc during recording of a phonograph record.
- Stylus - n. - 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 converts the signal into sound; also called needle. The stylus is frequently composed of metal or diamond.