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graphophone

graphophone noun: an improvement on the phonograph, using a floating stylus to cut grooves into a wax-coated cardboard cylinder.

Noun

graphophone (plural graphophones)

  1. An improvement on the phonograph, using a floating stylus to cut grooves into a wax-coated cardboard cylinder.
    • And then I see that the grip she was carrying was one of them little graphophones.1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 177
  2. An optical device for showing (or photographing) an image when projected upon the atmosphere as a screen.

Forms of graphophone

pluralgraphophones

Origin of graphophone

From graph + -o- + -phone.

Questions about graphophone

What does graphophone mean?
Graphophone means an improvement on the phonograph, using a floating stylus to cut grooves into a wax-coated cardboard cylinder.
What part of speech is graphophone?
Graphophone is a noun.
What is the plural of graphophone?
The plural of graphophone is graphophones.

Words near graphophone in the dictionary

  1. graphons
  2. graphopathological
  3. graphopathology
  4. graphophobia
  5. graphophobic
  6. graphophone
  7. graphophones
  8. graphophonic
  9. graphophonically
  10. graphoria
  11. graphorrhea

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