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graphophone|ˈgræfəfəʊn| [f. Gr. γράϕ-ειν to write + ϕωνή voice, sound.] The name of one of the instruments for recording and reproducing sound. (Cf. phonograph.)
1886Boston Herald (Mass.) 16 July, The ‘graphophone’, or improved phonograph. 1892Mod. Mechanism (ed. Benjamin) 606 The Bell-Tainter graphophone. Hence graphoˈphonic a., of or pertaining to a graphophone. (In some recent Dicts.) |