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pho·no·graph

   [foh-nuh-graf, -grahf]
noun
any sound-reproducing machine using records in the form of cylinders or discs.
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1825–35 in sense “phonogram”; 1877 for the “talking phonograph” invented by T. A. Edison; phono- + -graph
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  • But it's also the world's largest establishment selling old and rare phonograph records.
  • At their birth, photography, the phonograph and cinematography were useful metaphors.
  • They chased bad guys, but they also had a telephone and a phonograph.
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phonograph (ˈfəʊnəˌɡrɑːf, -ˌɡræf)
 
—n
1.  an early form of gramophone capable of recording and reproducing sound on wax cylinders
2.  (US), (Canadian) gramophone, Also called: record player a device for reproducing the sounds stored on a record: now usually applied to the nearly obsolete type that uses a clockwork motor and acoustic horn

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phonograph
1835, "character representing a sound," lit. "writer of sounds," from Gk. phono- "sound" + -graphos "writing, writer." Phonographic (1840) originally was in ref. to shorthand; meaning "of an instrument that produces sounds from records" (talking phonograph, invented by Thomas A. Edison in 1877) it is
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attested from 1878. The recording made from it at first was called a phonogram (1879).
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