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PHONOGRAPH RECORD
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
Synonyms:
disc; disk; phonograph record; phonograph recording; platter; record
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("phonograph record" is a kind of...):
audio; audio recording; sound recording (a recording of acoustic signals)
Meronyms (parts of "phonograph record"):
acetate disk; phonograph recording disk (a disk coated with cellulose acetate)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phonograph record"):
L-P; LP (a long-playing phonograph record; designed to be played at 33.3 rpm)
78; seventy-eight (a shellac based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute)
