English Explanatory Dictionary

diaphone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of organ pipe.
  2. A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air.
noun
  1. A particular dialectal variant of a phoneme; all the dialectal variants of a phoneme, considered as a whole.

Word forms

diaphone diaphones

Etymology

From dia- + phone (i.e., dia(lect) + phone).

Related words

diaphoneme diaphonic diaphonology
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