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diaphones

diaphones is the plural of diaphone.

Meaning of diaphone

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.

Questions about diaphones

What is diaphones the plural of?
Diaphones is the plural of diaphone.

Words near diaphones in the dictionary

  1. diaphoenicon
  2. diaphone
  3. diaphoneme
  4. diaphonemes
  5. diaphonemic
  6. diaphones
  7. diaphonic
  8. diaphonical
  9. diaphonically
  10. diaphonics
  11. diaphonies

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