Definition of Phonograph

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Phonograph

A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.

An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration, and reproduce the sound.

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Phonograph Quotations

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
Edvard Munch

Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.
Elliott Carter

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
Laurel Lee

You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!
Bert Kalmar

My mother says I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. I love to talk. I just love to talk.
Jerry Hunt

Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.
P. J. Wolfson

Phonograph Translations

phonograph in Dutch is grammofoon
phonograph in French is phonographe

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