Usually means: Representation of sounds in speech.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word phonetic:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. phonetic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. phonetic: Merriam-Webster
  3. phonetic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. phonetic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. phonetic: Collins English Dictionary
  6. phonetic: Vocabulary.com
  7. Phonetic, phonetic: Wordnik
  8. phonetic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. phonetic: Wiktionary
  10. phonetic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. phonetic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. phonetic: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. phonetic: Dictionary.com
  14. phonetic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. phonetic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Phonetic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Phonetic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. phonetic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. phonetic: Rhymezone
  20. phonetic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. phonetic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. phonetic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. phonetic: FreeDictionary.org

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -phonetic: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. phonetic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. phonetic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. phonetic: Medical dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. phonetic: A Word A Day

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Phonetic: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See phonetically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Relating to the sounds of spoken language.
adjective:  (linguistics) Relating to phones (as opposed to phonemes).
adjective:  Relating to the spoken rather than written form of a word or name, as opposed to orthographic.
noun:  (linguistics) In such writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a phono-semantic character that provides an indication of its pronunciation; contrasted with semantic (which is usually the radical).

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