Phonograph

Definition:

  • (n.) A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.
  • (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.

Compare phonograph with other words:

phonograph vs. photograph

phono vs. phonograph

phonograph vs. phonographically

mobile vs. phonograph

epitaph vs. phonograph

phonogram vs. phonograph

phonograph vs. phonographic

flipside vs. phonograph

phonograph vs. pressing

gramophone vs. phonograph

phonograph vs. phonography

phonograph vs. sound

character vs. phonograph

phonograph vs. symbol

archaic vs. phonograph

phonograph vs. turntable

early vs. phonograph

cylinder vs. phonograph

phonograph vs. play

lathe vs. phonograph

archive vs. phonograph

capture vs. phonograph

engraved vs. phonograph

device vs. phonograph

disc vs. phonograph

disk vs. phonograph

phonograph vs. record

needle vs. phonograph

phonograph vs. wax

phonograph vs. stylus

acetate vs. phonograph