phonograph Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically
record player.

Phono- + -graph.

A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.
(Physics) An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration, and reproduce the sound.