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phonography|fəʊˈnɒgrəfɪ|
[f. Gr. ϕωνή voice (see phono-) + -graphy.]
1. The art or practice of writing according to sound, or so as to represent the actual pronunciation; phonetic spelling. ? Obs.
1701J. Jones (title) Practical Phonography: or, the new Art of Rightly Spelling and Writing Words By the Sound thereof, and of Rightly Sounding and Reading Words By the Sight thereof. 1851Trench Study Words vii. 215 The same attempt to introduce phonography has been several times made.
2. spec. The system of phonetic shorthand invented by Isaac Pitman in 1837: so named by him in 1840; Pitman's shorthand.
1840I. Pitman (title) Phonography, or writing by sound; being a natural method of writing, applicable to all languages, and a complete system of short hand. 1847― Hist. Shorthand in Man. Phonography §15 (1889) 8 Phonography is not adapted to the wants of the reporter alone, but is..well suited for letter-writing and general composition.
3. The automatic recording of sounds, as by the phonautograph, or the recording and reproduction of them by the phonograph; the construction and use of phonographs.
1861G. J. Whyte-Melville Mkt. Harb. xxi. 247 Savage..was explaining to Sawyer..a new discovery termed phonography, by which sounds or vibrations of air are to be taken down, as they arise, upon the principle of the photograph. 1886Cassell's Encycl. Dict., Phonography... 3. The art of using, or registering by means of, the phonograph; the construction of phonographs.
†4. The scientific description of sound, or of the voice; = phonology. Obs. rare—0.
1847in Webster. 1858in Mayne Expos. Lex. |