Definition of Phonograph record

1. Noun. Sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove.

Exact synonyms: Disc, Disk, Phonograph Recording, Platter, Record
Terms within: Acetate Disk, Phonograph Recording Disk
Specialized synonyms: L-p, Lp, 78, Seventy-eight
Generic synonyms: Audio, Audio Recording, Sound Recording
Derivative terms: Record

Definition of Phonograph record

1. Noun. A disk usually made of a polymer used to record sound for playback on a phonograph. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phonograph Record

phonocentrism
phonocentrisms
phonofiddle
phonofiddles
phonogenic
phonogram
phonogramic
phonogramically
phonogramme
phonogrammes
phonogrammic
phonograms
phonograph
phonograph album
phonograph needle
phonograph record
phonograph recording
phonograph recording disk
phonograph records
phonographer
phonographers
phonographic
phonographical
phonographically
phonographies
phonographist
phonographists
phonographs
phonography
phonolite

Literary usage of Phonograph record

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Motion Picture Making and Exhibiting: A Comprehensive Volume Treating the by John B. Rathbun (1914)
"The difference in the length of time taken to display a film and to play the phonograph record requires the individual synchronizing of a number of ..."

2. Why the Chimes Rang by Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden, Raymond Macdonald Alden (1915)
"It should be remembered however that the phonograph record lacks the vitality of tone and the note of jubilant triumph which a good musician can bring from ..."

3. Electricity in Every-day Life by Edwin James Houston (1905)
"... cause the phonograph record so obtained to reproduce the speech or other sounds that have been impressed on the transmitting diaphragm, ..."

4. Physics in Everyday Life by William D. Henderson, Lyons and Carnahan (1921)
"A homely but striking analogy to the preparation of a phonograph record may be given as follows: A vehicle on a given day is driven over a soft rough road. ..."

5. Chippewa Music by Frances Densmore (1910)
"To the phonograph record and its analysis must therefore be added abundant ... These three—phonograph record, analysis, and field notes— are the necessary ..."

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