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VISIBLE SPEECH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spectrogram of speech; speech displayed spectrographically
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("visible speech" is a kind of...):
spectrogram; spectrograph (a photographic record of a spectrum)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A phonetic alphabet invented by Melville Bell in the 19th century
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("visible speech" is a kind of...):
phonetic alphabet; sound alphabet (an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech)
