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Definition: PHONAUTOGRAPH |
PHONAUTOGRAPHNoun1. An instrument by means of which a sound can be made to produce a visible trace or record of itself. It consists essentially of a resonant vessel, usually of paraboloidal form, closed at one end by a flexible membrane. A stylus attached to some point of the membrane records the movements of the latter, as it vibrates, upon a moving cylinder or plate. |
Etymology: Phonautograph \Pho*nau"to*graph\, noun. [Phono- Greek expression self -graph.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Language | Translations for "PHONAUTOGRAPH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Vietnamese | máy ghi chấn động âm. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "PHONAUTOGRAPH" (pronounced 'Pho*nau"to*graph'): Accelerograph, Actinograph, Allograph, Anaglyptograph, Anagraph, Anapnograph, Anemograph, Anemometrograph, Antigraph, Apograph, Arcograph, Autochronograph, Barograph, Barometrograph, Barothermograph, Bibliograph, Brontograph, Cardiagraph, Cardiograph, Cardiosphygmograph, Cerograph, Chirograph, Chorograph, Chromograph, Chromolithograph, Chromophotograph, Chronograph, Chronophotograph, Cinematograph, Cinemograph, Comptograph, Copygraph, Cryptograph, Curvograph, Cyclograph, Dynamograph, Fluviograph, Galvanograph, Glyphograph, holograph, homograph, ideograph, kymograph, Macrograph, Magnetograph, Manograph, Marconigraph, Mechanograph, Melodiograph, Melograph. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-h-h-n-o-o-p-p-r-t-u" | |
-3 letters: pantograph, phonograph, photograph. | |
-4 letters: autograph. | |
-5 letters: argonaut, hornpout, thorough, tragopan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-h-h-n-o-o-p-p-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: anthropophagus. | |
+2 letters: anthropophagous. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 48 4F 4E 41 55 54 4F 47 52 41 50 48 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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