Index of English words, starting with "ph"

(1) - Phonograph (n.) 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.
(2) - Phonograph (n.) A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.

(1) - Phonographic (a.) Alt. of Phonographical

(1) - Phonographically (adv.) In a phonographic manner; by means of phonograph.

(1) - Phonography (n.) The art of constructing, or using, the phonograph.
(2) - Phonography (n.) A representation of sounds by distinctive characters; commonly, a system of shorthand writing invented by Isaac Pitman, or a modification of his system, much used by reporters.
(3) - Phonography (n.) A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.

(1) - Phonolite (n.) A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, hauynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; -- called also clinkstone.