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-phonics

-phonics suffix: names electronic systems related to acoustics and recording.

Suffix

-phonics

  1. Names electronic systems related to acoustics and recording.

Origin of -phonics

Potentially first used in this sense in stereophonics (1958)

Questions about -phonics

What does -phonics mean?
-phonics means names electronic systems related to acoustics and recording.
What part of speech is -phonics?
-phonics is a suffix.

Words near -phonics in the dictionary

  1. -phobic
  2. -phobics
  3. -phone
  4. -phonia
  5. -phonic
  6. -phonics
  7. -phonous
  8. -phony
  9. -phor
  10. -phore
  11. -phoresis

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