optophonen.

Brit.

/ˈɒptəfəʊn/, U.S.

/ˈɑptoʊˌfoʊn/

Forms: also with capital initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: opto- comb. form, -phone comb. form.

Etymology: < opto- comb. form + -phone comb. form, after German Optophon (E. E. F. d'Albe 1912, in Physikal. Zeitschr. 13 942/2).

An instrument designed to enable a blind person to read, in which a photoelectric cell is used to scan a text and produce electric signals that are converted into audible ones corresponding to the different characters.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > reading > reader > [noun] > reading machine > which enables blind persons to read

optophone1913

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for observing > [noun] > scanning devices > to enable blind person to read

optophone1913

Optacon1970

1913 E. E. F. D'Albe in Electrician 24 Oct. 103/1 The reading optophone consists essentially of a selenium preparation illuminated by a line of light broken up into dots.

1923 Glasgow Herald 3 Oct. 6 Messrs Barr and Stroud..by the invention and manufacture of their ‘Optophone’ have supplied the blind with a practical means of reading almost any printed type. Every letter sounds a tiny musical-motive up in the treble region.

1960 Daily Tel. 18 Oct. 15/1 She used an optophone, an experimental instrument developed from an invention of the late Dr Fournier d'Albe.

1997 New Scientist 11 Jan. 20/2 Phil Pickon..is embarking on a three-year project to build an optophone—an appliance that turns light into sound to help blind or partially-sighted people.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	optophone
释义	optophonen. Brit. /ˈɒptəfəʊn/, U.S. /ˈɑptoʊˌfoʊn/ Forms: also with capital initial. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: opto- comb. form, -phone comb. form. Etymology: < opto- comb. form + -phone comb. form, after German Optophon (E. E. F. d'Albe 1912, in Physikal. Zeitschr. 13 942/2). An instrument designed to enable a blind person to read, in which a photoelectric cell is used to scan a text and produce electric signals that are converted into audible ones corresponding to the different characters. ΘΚΠ society > communication > reading > reader > [noun] > reading machine > which enables blind persons to read optophone1913 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for observing > [noun] > scanning devices > to enable blind person to read optophone1913 Optacon1970 1913 E. E. F. D'Albe in Electrician 24 Oct. 103/1 The reading optophone consists essentially of a selenium preparation illuminated by a line of light broken up into dots. 1923 Glasgow Herald 3 Oct. 6 Messrs Barr and Stroud..by the invention and manufacture of their ‘Optophone’ have supplied the blind with a practical means of reading almost any printed type. Every letter sounds a tiny musical-motive up in the treble region. 1960 Daily Tel. 18 Oct. 15/1 She used an optophone, an experimental instrument developed from an invention of the late Dr Fournier d'Albe. 1997 New Scientist 11 Jan. 20/2 Phil Pickon..is embarking on a three-year project to build an optophone—an appliance that turns light into sound to help blind or partially-sighted people. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1913
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