Definitions
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- noun A device that records
sounds on photographyfilm .
Etymologies
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Coined by the inventor Charles Hoxie ca. 1922 from πάλλω (pallō, "shaking") + φωτός (photos, "light") + φωνή (phōnē, "sound")
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