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
Etymology
Origin of phonographic
1830–40 in sense “pertaining to phonograms”; 1878 for current senses; phonograph, phonograph(y) + -ic
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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
The phonographic clock had but replaced the slave whose business, standing by the noiseless water-clock, it was to keep tale of the moments as they dropped, ages before they had been taught to tick.
From With The Eyes Shut 1898 by Edward Bellamy
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