graphophone
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈɡræfəˌfoʊn/
- Archaic
:
grafófono
- At the museum, I saw an old graphophone that used wax cylinders for playback.
Examples
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If Bell ripped you off with the telephone, he'll do it again with the graphophone.
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There's gonna be a graphophone.
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- Graphophone?
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VOICE FROM GRAPHOPHONE:
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In the early 1900s, the graphophone revolutionized the way people listened to music.
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The inventor demonstrated how the graphophone could record sound much clearer than previous devices.
Synonyms
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8.8
A machine that plays music from old records
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9.2
An old machine that plays music from records using a needle
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9.8
An old machine that saves sound on thin metal wire and plays it back
An old record player with a large horn that makes sound without electricity
How Analog
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Etymology
Graphophone comes from Greek parts graph meaning 'to write' and phone meaning 'sound', the same parts you see in autograph and telephone. So a graphophone is like a machine that 'writes' sound onto a record and plays it back, which is why it was an early device for recording and playing sound.