electrical transcription
Americannoun
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a radio broadcast from a phonograph record.
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the phonograph record itself.
Example Sentences
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"Oppressive" again was the way the Society charged an electrical transcription fee ranging from 25� to 50� for each broadcast of a record.
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He was making an electrical transcription to be broadcast the next day.
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The speech was an electrical transcription that he forgot to change when Germany struck.
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I can't see why the War Department don't make an electrical transcription of one of these salutes and in the future merely attach a huge amplifier.
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But while the record manufacturers gloomed over their dwindling sales accounts, the engineers of Western Electric and the Bell Telephone Laboratories had been monkeying with electrical transcription and reproduction.
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