Gramophone
['græməfəʊn] or ['ɡræməfon]
Definition
(noun.) an antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically.
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Definition
n. an instrument of the phonograph type for recording and reproducing articulate speech—invented by E. Berliner.
Editor: Maureen
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of hearing the gramophone, foretells the advent of some new and pleasing comrade who will lend himself willingly to advance your enjoyment. If it is broken, some fateful occurrence will thwart and defeat delights that you hold in anticipation.
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Examples
- Two years thereafter, Mr. Emile Berliner of Washington had invented the _gramophone_, which consists in etching on a metallic plate the record of voice waves. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The gramophone is also another speaking machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Then came the telephone, phonograph, graphophone and gramophone. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- An illustration of the gramophone recorder is given in Fig. 193. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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