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1. (n.) phonograph
any sound-reproducing machine using records in the form of cylinders or grooved disks.
Etymology: (1877)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) record player, phonograph
machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) phonograph
a character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography
2. (noun) phonograph
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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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. 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.
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The Standard Electrical Dictionary |
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1. phonograph
An apparatus for reproducing articulate speech. It is not electric, except as it may be driven by electricity.
It consists of a cylinder of wax-like material which is rotated and moved slowly, longitudinally, screw fashion, at an even speed. A glass diaphragm carrying a needle point is supported with the point barely touching the wax. If the diaphragm is agitated, as by being spoken against, the needle is driven back and forwards cutting a broken line or groove following the direction of the thread of a screw in the wax, the depth of which line or groove continually varies.
This imprints the message. If the needle is set back and the cylinder is rotated so as to carry the needle point over the line thus impressed, the varying depth throws the needle and diaphragm into motion and the sound is reproduced.
The cylinder is rotated often by an electric motor, with a centrifugal governor.
[Transcriber's note; Due to T. A. Edison, 1877, fifteen years before this book.]
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Sense: (American) a gramophone.
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 Afrikaans: fonograaf, grammafoon |
 Arabic: فونوغْراف: الحاكي |
 Bulgarian: грамофон |
 Brazilian: fonógrafo |
 Czech: gramofon |
 German: das Gramophone |
 Danish: pladespiller |
 Greek: γραμμόφωνο |
 Spanish: gramófono |
 Estonian: grammofon |
 Farsi: گرامافون |
 Finnish: gramofoni |
 French: phonographe |
 Hebrew: פָּטֶפוֹן |
 Hindi: ग्रामोफोन |
 Croatian: fonograf, gramofon |
 Hungarian: gramofon |
 Indonesian: gramofon |
 Italian: fonografo |
 Korean: 축음기 |
 Lithuanian: fonografas |
 Latvian: gramofons |
 Malay: peti nyanyi |
 Norwegian: grammofon |
 Polish: gramofon |
 Persian: گرامافون |
 Pashto: غږ ميچ (فونوګراف)، هغه ال |
 Russian: граммофон |
 Slovak: gramofón |
 Serbian: gramofon |
 Swedish: grammofon |
 Thai: เครื่องเล่นจานเสียง |
 Turkish: gramofon |
 Taiwanese: 留聲機，唱機 |
 Ukrainian: грамофон, патефон |
 Urdu: گراموفون |
 Vietnamese: máy hát |
 Chinese: 留声机，电唱机 |
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