8 definitions found for phonograph

phonograph n 1: machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically [syn: record player, phonograph]

phonograph noun Date: 1877 an instrument for reproducing sounds by means of the vibration of a stylus or needle following a spiral groove on a revolving disc or cylinder

phonograph
n.
1 Brit. an early form of gramophone using cylinders and able to record as well as reproduce sound.
2 US a gramophone.

phonograph (phonographs) A phonograph is a record player. (AM; also BRIT OLD-FASHIONED) N-COUNT

phonograph ˈfəunəɡrɑ:f n. 1 Brit. an early form of gramophone using cylinders and able to record as well as reproduce sound. 2 US a gramophone.

Phonograph an instrument invented by Edison (q. v.) in 1877 for recording and reproducing articulate sounds of the voice in speech or song, and to which the name of phonogram is given.

Phonograph Pho"no*graph, n. [Phono- + -graph.] 1. A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography. 2. (Physics) 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.

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