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kinetophones

kinetophones is the plural of kinetophone.

Meaning of kinetophone

Noun

kinetophone (plural kinetophones)

  1. (historical) A machine combining a kinetoscope and a phonograph synchronized so as to reproduce a scene and its accompanying sounds.
    • Shortly thereafter, many parlors installed kinetophones, in which patrons, after putting a coin in the slot, could peer through an eyepiece at moving pictures and, at the same time, by means of ear-tubes somewhat similar to the physician's stethoscope, listen to a sound accompaniment.1941, Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers

Questions about kinetophones

What is kinetophones the plural of?
Kinetophones is the plural of kinetophone.

Words near kinetophones in the dictionary

  1. kinetographically
  2. kinetographs
  3. kinetography
  4. Kineton
  5. kinetophone
  6. kinetophones
  7. kinetophonograph
  8. kinetophonographs
  9. kinetoplasm
  10. kinetoplast
  11. kinetoplastic

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