phonographic
Americanadjective
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of, relating to, or characteristic of a phonograph.
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of, relating to, or noting phonography.
adjective
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of or relating to phonography
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of or relating to the recording of music
Other Word Forms
- phonographically adverb
Etymology
Origin of phonographic
1830–40 in sense “pertaining to phonograms”; 1878 for current senses; phonograph, phonograph(y) + -ic
Example Sentences
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But the Shang’s passing on to future dynasties a logographic script, rather than a phonographic alphabet, meant that for centuries literacy was the preserve of elites.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
“Because it was his idea to make the message a phonographic record as opposed to some other form for holding all the information.”
From Scientific American • Sep. 6, 2022
The first human-made object to make it to interstellar space, the Voyager 1 spacecraft, carries a gold-plated phonographic record that includes Mexican folk music, early rock and roll, a Peruvian wedding song, and more.
From Slate • Jan. 2, 2020
In 1920, Warren Harding became the first Presidential candidate to record his speeches, which were sold as a phonographic disk.
From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019
Mr. Haugen was phonographic reporter of the Eighth and Eleventh Judicial circuits for several years, and a member of the assembly from Pierce county in 1879 and 80.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
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