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phonograph
(foʊnəgrɑːf, -græf)
Word forms: plural phonographs
countable noun
A phonograph is a record player.
[US, also British, old-fashioned] ...old phonograph records.
phonograph in British English
(ˈfəʊnəˌɡrɑːf, -ˌɡræf)
noun
1.
an early form of gramophone capable of recording and reproducing sound on wax cylinders
2. Also called: gramophone, record player US and Canadian
a device for reproducing the sounds stored on a record: now usually applied to the nearly obsolete type that uses a clockwork motor and acoustic horn
phonograph in American English
(ˈfoʊnəˌgræf)
noun
US
a device for reproducing sound that has been mechanically transcribed in a spiral groove on a circular disk or cylinder: a stylus following the groove in the revolving disk or cylinder transmits vibrations which are converted into sound
Word origin
phono- + -graphImage ofphonograph
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