phonographic, a.
(fəʊnəʊˈgræfɪk)
[f. as prec. + -ic: see -graphic.]
1. Representing, or consisting of characters representing, spoken sounds; phonetic.
| 1847 Webster, Phonographic, phonographical, descriptive of the sounds of the voice. 1866 Reader No. 164. 177/1 Chinese phonographic devices. 1883 I. Taylor Alphabet I. i. 6 Although our own writing has reached the alphabetic stage, yet we still continue to employ a considerable number of phonographic and ideographic signs. |
2. Of, pertaining to, or using phonography (Pitman's system of phonetic shorthand).
| 1840 I. Pitman Phonography 6 The Phonographic signs for the simple articulations. 1842 ― Man. Phonogr. 5 The pupil should first learn the Phonographic Letters, taking them in the natural order of pronunciation. 1853 ― (title) Phonographic Reporter's Companion. |
3. Of, pertaining to, or produced by a phonograph. Also fig.
| 1878 T. A. Edison in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 532 They are required to do no more by the phonographic method. 1878 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone x. 303 (heading) Tracings from phonographic records. 1898 H. G. Wells Let. 22 Jan. in G. Gissing & H. G. Wells (1961) 79 A beautiful phonographic newspaper with a leathery flat voice. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 31 May 2/3 The Vienna Academy of Sciences is..going to set up phonographic archives. There are to be three sections of phonograms. 1976 Times 2 Nov. 5/2 The British phonographic industry. |
So phonoˈgraphical a. rare.
| 1846 Worcester, Phonographic, Phonographical. 1974 Country Life 12 Dec. 1857/3 The two-volume CBS Astaire solo anthology..are transfers of old Brunswick 78s and therefore more satisfying in purely phonographical terms. |