graphophone

[ graf-uh-fohn ]

/ ˈgræf əˌfoʊn /

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noun

a phonograph for recording and reproducing sounds on wax records.

Origin of graphophone

grapho- + -phone

OTHER WORDS FROM graphophone

graph·o·phon·ic

[graf-uh-fon-ik], /ˌgræf əˈfɒn ɪk/, adjective

Words nearby graphophone

graphite cloth, graphitize, grapho-, graphology, graphomotor, graphophone, graphorrhea, Graphotype, graph paper, graph theory, -graphy

Example sentences from the Web for graphophone

During this period he sang like a graphophone; voices said “move his head”, and his head would move itself.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry|Bernard Glueck
So Peter suggested to the proprietor that he start the graphophone.
Green Valley|Katharine Reynolds
The apparatus is shown arranged for taking parallel records on the smoked glass disc, and on the cylinder of the graphophone.
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1|Various
The reply was, that there were eighty wards and not a graphophone in one of them, nothing to amuse the boys.
The War Romance of the Salvation Army|Evangeline Booth and Grace Livingston Hill

Then came the telephone, phonograph, graphophone and gramophone.
Inventions in the Century|William Henry Doolittle