luminaphone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of organ whose keys project light beams through perforated revolving disks onto selenium cells in order to produce electrical vibrations that generate the sound.

Word forms

luminaphone luminaphones

Etymology

From Latin lūmen (“light”) + -phone.

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