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81phonematic — /foh neuh mat ik/, adj. phonemic. [1935 40; < Gk phonemat (s. of phónema) utterance + IC] * * * …
82phonematics — /foh neuh mat iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) Chiefly Brit. phonemics. [1935 40; see PHONEMATIC, ICS] * * * …
83phoneme — /foh neem/, n. Ling. any of a small set of units, usually about 20 to 60 in number, and different for each language, considered to be the basic distinctive units of speech sound by which morphemes, words, and sentences are represented. They are… …
84phonesthemic — /foh neuhs thee mik/, adj. Ling. (of a speech sound) shared by a set of echoic or symbolic words, as the sn of sneer, snarl, snatch, snide, snitch, snoop, etc. [phonestheme such a sound or group of sounds (coined by J. R. Firth in 1930; appar.… …
85phonetician — /foh ni tish euhn/, n. 1. a specialist in phonetics or in some aspect of phonetics. 2. a dialectologist. [1840 50; PHONETIC + IAN] * * * …
86phonetist — /foh ni tist/, n. a person who uses or advocates phonetic spelling. [1860 65; < Gk phonet(ós) (see PHONETIC) + IST] * * * …
87phono — /foh noh/, n., pl. phonos. Informal. phonograph. [by shortening] * * * …
88phonocardiogram — /foh neuh kahr dee euh gram /, n. Med. the graphic record produced by a phonocardiograph. [1910 15; PHONO + CARDIOGRAM] * * * …
89phonograph — /foh neuh graf , grahf /, n. any sound reproducing machine using records in the form of cylinders or discs. [1825 35 in sense phonogram ; 1877 for the talking phonograph invented by T. A. Edison; PHONO + GRAPH] * * * or record player Instrument… …
90phonon — /foh non/, n. Physics. a quantum of sound or vibratory elastic energy, being the analogue of a photon of electromagnetic energy. [1930 35; PHON + ON1] * * * In solid state physics, a quantum of lattice vibrational energy. In analogy to a photon… …
