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A gramophone record played at 33⅓ revolutions per minute.
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A gramophone record played at 45 revolutions per minute.
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(retronym) A gramophone record played at 78 revolutions per minute.
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(dated) An instrument for greatly intensifying speech, consisting of a phonograph diaphragm arranged so that its action opens and closes valves, producing synchronous air blasts sufficient to operate a larger diaphragm with greater amplitude of vibration.
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A jacket or cover for such a phonograph record.
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(historical) A 19th-century device for inhaling hydrogen peroxide and free ammonia, believed at that time to improve the quality of the singing and speaking voice.
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(historical, telegraphy) A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this device increase its resistance several times.
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A modern, electric version of a phonograph or Ediphone from the early 20th century
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(historical, wireless telegraphy) A self-restoring coherer, such as a microphonic detector.
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(historical) An instrument for studying the human voice, having a lamp, a mirror, and a tube that is introduced into a person's mouth. The inner workings of the mouth can then be viewed while speaking etc.
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(historical) A pneumatic type of sound-playback device used in the early part of the twentieth century.
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(electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
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(historical) An early magnetic sound-recording device.
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an early form of carbon microphone
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A tape recorder that records on cassette tapes
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(electronics) a 120-mm (5-inch) CD (compact disc)
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A record player of the Crosley brand.
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An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
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(music, informal, historical) A phonograph record about teenage tragedy.
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A sensitive microphone able to record conversations covertly even through a wall.
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An early audio recording device used in wiretaps.
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Alternative form of dictograph [(historical) A telephonic instrument for office or similar use, having a sound-magnifying device enabling the ordinary mouthpiece to be dispensed with. It was sometimes used for covertly recording conversations.]
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A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record.
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A portable personal compact disc player with headphones.
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(dated) A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
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(dated, music) A phonograph-record manufacturer; a shop that sells phonograph records.
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(historical) An early recording device for dictation, using wax cylinders as a medium.
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A phonograph record, made of a thin vinyl sheet with a moulded spiral stylus groove, produced between 1960 and 2000 and sometimes used as a means of including audio material with books and magazines.
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Alternative form of Flexi disc [A phonograph record, made of a thin vinyl sheet with a moulded spiral stylus groove, produced between 1960 and 2000 and sometimes used as a means of including audio material with books and magazines.]
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(Britain, dated) A record player.
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Someone who listens to a gramophone
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The business or study of gramophones.
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An improvement on the phonograph, using a floating stylus to cut grooves into a wax-coated cardboard cylinder.
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An induction loop that works with hearing aids to allow a voice or other sound to be transmitted directly to a person who is hard of hearing.
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(electronics, especially aviation) A microphone that is activated (but not powered) by the sound of the user's voice, allowing it to pick up speech without having to be manually turned on, while still rejecting background noise unaccompanied by speech.
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(historical) A method of train telegraphy. The train carries a circuit including a coil, and messages are picked up by it from coils along the line into which an alternating current is passed. A telephone is used as a receiver in place of a sounder or relay.
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An obsolete form of microphone that detected sound waves by measuring the density of ionised air between a cathode and an anode
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(historical) A radio-based device that generates sound corresponding to distant lightning flashes.
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A type of contact microphone that absorbs vibrations directly from the wearer's throat.
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(medicine, dated) A device by which the presence of bladder stones can be audibly detected.
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The inner groove on a vinyl record in the form of a closed loop, which traps the tonearm and needle, preventing it from entering the label area.
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Ellipsis of long-play record., a 12- or 10-inch microgroove phonograph record format introduced in 1948.
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A device that records an input signal and then can be set to play it back in continuous repetitions.
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An electromechanical transducer that converts an electrical signal into audible sound.
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(dated) A tape recorder (device using magnetic tape as a storage medium).
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(dated) An early telephone with a diaphragm of soft iron placed close to the pole of a magnet upon which is wound a coil of fine wire. Its vibrations produce corresponding currents in the wire by induction.
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(recording) Royalties on the sale of recordings in the form of records, CDs, tapes, or similar objects.
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The long, spiral groove of a vinyl LP record
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A device (transducer) used to convert sound waves into a varying electric current; normally fed into an amplifier and either recorded or transmitted over radio.
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(historical) A machine that combines the microphone and the phonograph, so as to record and replay sounds.
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A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
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(historical) A device used in the making of a loud-speaking telephone, depending on the fact that the friction between a metallic point and a moving cylinder of moistened chalk, or a moving slip of paper, on which it rests is diminished by the passage of a current between the point and the moving surface.
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(historical) A phonograph capable of transmitting sounds over long distances.
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The mount that holds the motor on a record player.
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A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
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(idiomatic) A digital copy of a vinyl record
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A device that transforms light into sound.
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(historical, photography) A device that records sounds on photographic film.
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A recording made with a phonautograph.
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(historical) A device for recording sound vibrations in a visible form.
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The component attached to the end of the tone arm of a phonograph turntable that holds the stylus
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(historical) A disc (rather than a cylinder etc) on which sound has been recorded
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(Britain, historical) A device that records or plays sound from cylinder records.
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A disc, usually made of a polymer, used to record sound for playback on a phonograph.
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(US, law) A physical object that contains a permanent record of a sound.
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(historical) An early kind of microphone.
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An early technique for recording a mechanical television signal onto gramophone records.
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(historical) A device that transmitted sound on a beam of light.
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In a record player, an electromagnetic component that converts the needle vibrations into an electrical signal.
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A phonograph record with images on the playable surface, rather than plain vinyl.
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The hard surface of a turntable on which a gramophone record rests when being played.
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A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
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A kind of phonograph record using a discrete four-channel quadraphonic system.
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A combination radio and cassette recorder.
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An entertainment device that combined a radio and a record player or gramophone.
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A gramophone record player that incorporates a radio receiver.
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The round sticker in the centre of a phonograph record that contains the record company's logo and information about the recording.
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An electronic device for playing phonograph records.
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the physical interface between a recording apparatus and a moving recording medium
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In a phonograph, a device containing a sounding diaphragm and the needle or stylus that traverses the moving record, for reproducing the sound.
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(historical) A monotelephone.
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(historical) Improvised gramophone recordings made from X-ray film, used to smuggle prohibited music into the Soviet Union.
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The end portion of the groove of a phonographic record, after the recorded sound.
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A gramophone record designed to be rotated at 78 revolutions per minute; a 78
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The effect of sound that is picked up by the telephone's mouthpiece and introduced (at low level) into the earpiece of the same handset, acting as feedback; or a similar effect in radiotelegraphy, public-address systems, etc.
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(historical) An instrument used to record the receipt of a telegraph message as an ink line on a roll of paper tape to be read back later by a trained operator.
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A component of a film projector or similar device that reads or writes audio signals in electromagnetic form.
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A seven-inch vinyl phonograph record with music by a different band on either side.
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An early stereophonic music centre containing a gramophone and radio, and often storage space for records
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A hard point, typically of diamond or sapphire, following a groove in a phonograph and transmitting the recorded sound for reproduction.
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An audio delay device which records incoming audio to a loop of magnetic tape, then replays it over a series of playback heads before it is erased again by new incoming audio.
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(historical) An early device for recording sound by local magnetization of a steel wire, disk, or ribbon, moved against the pole of a magnet connected electrically with a telephone receiver or similar.
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(historical) A device for the recording and transmission of sound.
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(historical) A telephone involving heat effects, as changes in temperature (hence in length) due to pulsations of the line current in a fine wire connected with the receiver diaphragm.
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A phonograph record that rotates at 33+¹⁄₃ revolutions per minute; especially an LP
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A type of contact microphone that absorbs vibrations directly from the wearer's throat, laryngophone.
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(dated) An early telephone technology allowing subscribers to listen to live opera and theatre performances.
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a light, balanced arm that holds the pickup cartridge on a record player
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The pivoting bar that holds the pickup of a record player and conducts the resulting signal to the amplifier.
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(music) The circular rotating platform of a record player or a disk jockey's console on which the record rests during play; (by extension), a record player.
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A gramophone record of approximately 12 inches in diameter, having wider groove spacing and a shorter play time than a typical LP.
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A vibrating reed for transmitting or receiving pulsating currents in a harmonic telegraph system.
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A brand-name model of phonograph and phonograph records manufactured and sold by the Victor Talking Machine Company and later RCA Victor beginning in 1906.
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(music, collectively, uncountable) Phonograph records as a medium.
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A piece of shaped plastic that may be clipped inside the hole on the middle of a record that has previously been used in a jukebox so that it can be played on a normal record player
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A form of gramophone record that was stamped from a lump of polyvinyl chloride.
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(countable) A recording intended for a phonograph.
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(historical) A device for analogue audio storage made magnetically onto fine steel or stainless steel wire, introduced commercially after World War II primarily for office dictation.
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