of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a phonograph
2.
of, pertaining to, or noting phonography
Also: phonographical
Derived forms
phonographically
adverb
Word origin
[1830–40 in sense “pertaining to phonograms”; 1878 for current senses; phonograph, phonograph(y) + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1830–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: ante, isometric, orientation, rococo, stroboscope-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)
Examples of 'phonographic' in a sentence
phonographic
The artists they discovered had their music pressed on to phonographic records.