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gramophone (iou)



gramophone noun & verb. L19.
[Inversion of elems. of PHONOGRAM.]
A. noun. An instrument (orig. driven by clockwork, later by electricity) for reproducing recorded sound by the vibrations of a stylus travelling in an irregular spiral groove in a disc rotating on a turntable. Now arch. or Hist. (the later electrically driven model being usu. called a record-player). L19.
Comb.: gramophone record: see RECORD noun 5a.
B. verb trans. Play on or record for the gramophone. Now arch. rare. E20.
gramophonic adjective of, relating to, or of the nature of a gramophone or gramophone record E20.
gramo'phonically adverb E20.