Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The science or practice of transcribing speech by means of symbols representing elements of sound; phonetic transcription.
- n. A system of shorthand based on phonetic transcription.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The science of sound-signs, or the representation of vocal sounds.
- n. The representation of words as they are pronounced; specifically, a system of phonetic writing in shorthand introduced by Isaac Pitman of Bath, England, in the year 1837. The consonants are represented by simple lines (called stems), curved or straight, light or heavy, vertical, horizontal, or slanting, with initial and terminal hooks, circles, loops, etc.; the vowels are represented by dots and dashes, light or heavy, by combinations of them, and by small angles and semicircles. In actual use most of the vowel-signs are omitted (though they may in many cases be approximately indicated by the position—above, on, or below the line —of the consonant-stem), and the consonant-stems, by halving, doubling, etc., are made to perform extra duty. To secure further brevity, various arbitrary devices are employed. Mr. Pitman's system has been variously modified and improved by himself and others in England and America. See
shorthand . - n. The construction and use of phonographs, and the recording of sound by mechanical means, with a view to its reproduction.
Wiktionary
- n. the transcription of speech using symbols
- n. a form of shorthand using such symbols
- n. dated The art of constructing, or using, the phonograph.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.
- n. A representation of sounds by distinctive characters; commonly, a system of shorthand writing invented by Isaac Pitman, or a modification of his system, much used by reporters.
- n. The art of constructing, or using, the phonograph.
Etymologies
- From French phonographie (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Look at the words 'defective,' 'phonography' and all of it.”
“Manutius and Nicholas Jenson successively excelled, has attained its acme of perfection, and that our grand-children will no longer trust their works to this somewhat antiquated process, now become very easy to replace by phonography, which is yet in its initial stage, and of which we have much to hope.””
“Printing, a "somewhat antiquated process" that for centuries "has reigned despotically over the mind of man," would be replaced by "phonography," and libraries would be turned into "phonographotecks.”
“Eggs phonography: find some eggs that have already been cooked.”
“Billboard allows you to get a birds-eye view of the Billboard Hot 100 by listening to all the #1 singles from 1958 through the millenium using a technique I've been working on for a couple of years called time-lapse phonography.”
“I believe, then, in the success of everything which will favor and encourage the indolence and selfishness of men; the elevator has done away with the toilsome climbing of stairs; phonography will probably be the destruction of printing.”
“Just as oculists have multiplied since the invention of journalism, so with the phonography yet to be, the aurists will begin to abound.”
“The phonography of the future will be at the service of our grandchildren on all the occasions of life.”
“Starting in radiophonics, escalation 746 has explored performance art, music, soundtracks, phonography, electro-acoustics and other disciplines.”
“Someone posted yesterday on one of the lists I'm on Chain-Tape that he's involved in an upcoming show in London "based on field recordings/phonography and its use in composition", and that his piece in progress "consists solely of sounds generated by fridges, focusing on household sounds that permeate out into our individual environments, turning this into a continuous mix lasting just under an hour".”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘phonography’.
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phono-, phon-, -phony
relating to sound
phonograph, phonics, phonology, telephony, phoneme, phone, telephone, phonautograph, phonetic, phonebook, phonography, phonolite and 107 more...
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Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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zachg's Words
verisimilitude, phenomenology, polyvalent, aleatoric, ontology, epistemology, solipsism, monad, hermeneutic, heuristic, performative, constative and 142 more...
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