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Phonology :: Phonology (n.) The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. Also, a treatise on sounds..

Phonologist :: Phonologist (n.) One versed in phonology.

Phonotypical :: Phonotypical (a.) Of or pertaining to phonotypy; as, a phonotypic alphabet..

Cacophonous :: Cacophonous (a.) Alt. of Cacophoniou.

Euphonon :: Euphonon (n.) An instrument resembling the organ in tine and the upright piano in form. It is characterized by great strength and sweetness of tone.

Phonography :: Phonography (n.) A representation of sounds by distinctive characters; commonly, a system of shorthand writing invented by Isaac Pitman, or a modification of his system, much used by reporters..

Siphonostomata :: Siphonostomata (n. pl.) A tribe of parasitic copepod Crustacea including a large number of species that are parasites of fishes, as the lerneans. They have a mouth adapted to suck blood..

Phonographical :: Phonographical (a.) Of or pertaining to phonograph; done by the phonograph.

Pneumatocyst :: Pneumatocyst (n.) A cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and serving as a float, as in Physalia..

Phonetist :: Phonetist (n.) One versed in phonetics; a phonologist.

Homophonous :: Homophonous (a.) Now used for plain harmony, note against note, as opposed to polyphonic harmony, in which the several parts move independently, each with its own melody..

Phonograph :: Phonograph (n.) An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration

Phonography :: Phonography (n.) The art of constructing, or using, the phonograph..

Siphonobranchiate :: Siphonobranchiate (n.) One of the Siphonobranchiata.

Nectocalyx :: Nectocalyx (n.) One of the zooids of certain Siphonophora, having somewhat the form, and the essential structure, of the bell of a jellyfish, and acting as a swimming organ..

Logogram :: Logogram (n.) A word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of brevity, represents a word; as, |, i. e., t, for it. Cf. Grammalogue..

Physophorae :: Physophorae (n. pl.) An order of Siphonophora, furnished with an air sac, or float, and a series of nectocalyces. See Illust. under Nectocalyx..

Hydrophyllium :: Hydrophyllium (n.) One of the flat, leaflike, protective zooids, covering other zooids of certain Siphonophora..

Stylus :: Stylus (n.) That needle-shaped part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electronic) which converts the signal into sound; also called needle. The stylus is frequently composed of metal or diamond..

Physaliae :: Physaliae (n. pl.) An order of Siphonophora which includes Physalia.

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