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diaphone

diaphone noun: a kind of organ pipe.

Noun (1)

diaphone (plural diaphones)

  1. A kind of organ pipe.
  2. A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air.

Noun (2)

diaphone (plural diaphones)

  1. A particular dialectal variant of a phoneme; all the dialectal variants of a phoneme, considered as a whole.

Forms of diaphone

pluraldiaphones

Origin of diaphone

From dia- + phone (i.e., dia(lect) + phone).

Questions about diaphone

What does diaphone mean?
Diaphone means a kind of organ pipe.
What part of speech is diaphone?
Diaphone is a noun.
What is the plural of diaphone?
The plural of diaphone is diaphones.

Words near diaphone in the dictionary

  1. diaphasic
  2. diaphemetric
  3. diaphilosophical
  4. diaphilosophy
  5. diaphoenicon
  6. diaphone
  7. diaphoneme
  8. diaphonemes
  9. diaphonemic
  10. diaphones
  11. diaphonic

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