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graphophones

graphophones is the plural of graphophone.

Meaning of graphophone

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.

Questions about graphophones

What is graphophones the plural of?
Graphophones is the plural of graphophone.

Words near graphophones in the dictionary

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

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