单词 | logatom |
释义 | logatomn. Telephony. A meaningless syllable formed arbitrarily, usually from initial and final consonants and a vowel, for use in testing telephone systems. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > signals or tones call signal1853 telephone call1878 tone1878 ring-off1885 busy tone1902 buzz1913 dialling tone1917 dial tone1920 ringtone1921 ringing tone1922 pip1929 pip-pip-pip1936 logatom1937 pay-tone1958 ringtone1984 1937 W. H. Grinsted in Siemens Mag. Jan. (Engin. Suppl.) 4/2 Measurements are easier and more definite if one goes to the limit of intelligibility or uses nonsense syllables (logatoms). 1937 W. H. Grinsted in Siemens Mag. Jan. (Engin. Suppl.) 8/2 A few approximate contour curves,..for logatom articulation, have been plotted. 1942 N. V. Knight & W. Prickett Poole's Telephone Handbk. (ed. 8) xx. 491 These syllables are composed of consonant, vowel and consonant, based on the esperanto alphabet, which are termed logatoms. 1973 D. L. Richards Telecommunication by Speech iii. 165 Table 3.13 shows also a list of English single syllable words, which have been constructed by selecting from the English logatoms just described those that were actual English words. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1937 |
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