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thermophones

thermophones is the plural of thermophone.

Meaning of thermophone

Noun

thermophone (plural thermophones)

  1. A form of transducer that generates sound waves of precise power.
  2. (historical) A portable telethermometer, using a telephone in connection with a differential thermometer.
  3. (historical) A telephone involving heat effects, as changes in temperature (hence in length) due to pulsations of the line current in a fine wire connected with the receiver diaphragm.

Questions about thermophones

What is thermophones the plural of?
Thermophones is the plural of thermophone.

Words near thermophones in the dictionary

  1. thermophobes
  2. thermophobia
  3. thermophobic
  4. thermophobous
  5. thermophone
  6. thermophones
  7. thermophonic
  8. thermophore
  9. thermophores
  10. thermophoresis
  11. thermophoretic

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