phonograph
n.
instrument for reproduction of sound; gramophone, record player, device used to play music recorded on vinyl discs
Phonograph
Phonograph (der)
n.
phono, phonograph, record player, device used to play music that is recorded on vinyl discs
Phonograph
(n.)
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.
(n.)
A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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phonograph
Noun
1. machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically
(synonym) record player
(hypernym) machine
(hyponym) gramophone, acoustic gramophone
(part-holonym) audio system, sound system
(part-meronym) cartridge, pickup