Definitions for magnetophone

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The Standard Electrical Dictionary

  1. Magnetophone

    An apparatus for producing a loud sound, involving the principles of the telephone. A rapidly alternating or make and break current being produced by any means and being transmitted through the telephone gives a loud note of pitch dependent on the current producing it. Sometimes a perforated metallic disc is rotated in a magnetic field, and produces the requisite type of current.


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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

tape-recorder(noun)

a machine which records sounds on magnetic tape and reproduces them when required.

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