Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An apparatus devised by H. S. Carhart, consisting essentially of a horseshoe magnet, in front of which is a disk of sheet-iron pierced with a number of holes, and on the other side a small induction-coil in circuit with a telephone.

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Examples

  • The magnetophone process is a high-grade sound storage method.

    5. Magnetic Field 1991

  • (generator rule) · Magnetic head of magnetophone (induction of rest)

    5. Magnetic Field 1991

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