PHONAUTOGRAPH

  

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PHONAUTOGRAPH

Definition: PHONAUTOGRAPH

PHONAUTOGRAPH

Noun

1. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Phonautograph \Pho*nau"to*graph\, noun. [Phono- Greek expression self -graph.]. (Websters 1913)


Modern Translations: PHONAUTOGRAPH

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.

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Rhyming with "PHONAUTOGRAPH"

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)

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Anagrams: PHONAUTOGRAPH

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.

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Alternative Orthography: PHONAUTOGRAPH


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)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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