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Phonographical   Listen
adjective
Phonographical, Phonographic  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to phonography; based upon phonography.
2.
Of or pertaining to phonograph; done by the phonograph.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Phonographical" Quotes from Famous Books



... humor, its tedium, its dangers, its hardships—was never before so vividly portrayed. The tyranny and cruelty of sea-captains, the absolute despotism of that little world of the ship's deck, stand out in strong relief. Dana had a memory like a phonographic record. Unless he took copious notes on this journey, it is incredible how he could have made it so complete, so specific is the life of each day. The reader craves more light on one point—the size of the ship, her length ...
— The Last Harvest • John Burroughs

... The phonographic record of a pianoforte solo shows this very clearly to the eye, because the impression made by a long note is a deeply-marked indentation succeeded by the merest shallow scratch—not unlike the impression made by a tadpole on ...
— Twentieth Century Inventions - A Forecast • George Sutherland

... the phonographic record to the dictagraph, so that police and detective work can be absolutely recorded, without the shadow of a doubt remaining in the minds of a trial jury or judge. Maybe this is ...
— Traffic in Souls - A Novel of Crime and Its Cure • Eustace Hale Ball

... country needs is not a phonographic record to preserve a candidate's voice, but something to preserve what's left of the voice of ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher



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