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luminaphone

luminaphone noun: a kind of organ whose keys project light beams through perforated revolving disks onto selenium cells in order to produce electrical vibrations that generate the sound.

Noun

luminaphone (plural luminaphones)

  1. (historical) A kind of organ whose keys project light beams through perforated revolving disks onto selenium cells in order to produce electrical vibrations that generate the sound.

Forms of luminaphone

pluralluminaphones

Origin of luminaphone

From Latin lūmen (“light”) + -phone.

Questions about luminaphone

What does luminaphone mean?
Luminaphone means a kind of organ whose keys project light beams through perforated revolving disks onto selenium cells in order to produce electrical vibrations that generate the sound.
What part of speech is luminaphone?
Luminaphone is a noun.
What is the plural of luminaphone?
The plural of luminaphone is luminaphones.

Words near luminaphone in the dictionary

  1. luminally
  2. luminance
  3. luminances
  4. luminant
  5. luminants
  6. luminaphone
  7. luminaphones
  8. luminar
  9. luminaria
  10. luminarias
  11. luminaries

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