Phono- () A combining form from Gr. / sound, tone; as, phonograph, phonology.
Phono (n.) A South American butterfly (Ithonia phono) having nearly transparent wings.
Phonocamptic (a.) Reflecting sound.
Phonogram (n.) A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.
Phonogram (n.) A record of sounds made by a phonograph.
Phonograph (n.) A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.
Phonograph (n.) 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.
Phonographer (n.) One versed or skilled in phonography.
Phonographer (n.) One who uses, or is skilled in the use of, the phonograph. See Phonograph, 2.
Phonographic (a.) Alt. of Phonographical
Phonographical (a.) Of or pertaining to phonography; based upon phonography.
Phonographical (a.) Of or pertaining to phonograph; done by the phonograph.
Phonographically (adv.) In a phonographic manner; by means of phonograph.
Phonographist (n.) Phonographer.
Phonography (n.) A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.
Phonography (n.) A representation of sounds by distinctive characters; commonly, a system of shorthand writing invented by Isaac Pitman, or a modification of his system, much used by reporters.
Phonography (n.) The art of constructing, or using, the phonograph.
Phonolite (n.) A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, hauynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; -- called also clinkstone.
Phonologer (n.) A phonologist.
Phonologic (a.) Alt. of Phonological
Phonological (a.) Of or pertaining to phonology.
Phonologist (n.) One versed in phonology.
Phonology (n.) The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. Also, a treatise on sounds.
Phonometer (n.) An instrument for measuring sounds, as to their intensity, or the frequency of the vibrations.
Phonomotor (n.) An instrument in which motion is produced by the vibrations of a sounding body.
Phonorganon (n.) A speaking machine.
Phonoscope (n.) An instrument for observing or exhibiting the motions or properties of sounding bodies; especially, an apparatus invented by Konig for testing the quality of musical strings.
Phonoscope (n.) An instrument for producing luminous figures by the vibrations of sounding bodies.
Phonotypr (n.) A type or character used in phonotypy.
Phonotypic (a.) Alt. of Phonotypical
Phonotypical (a.) Of or pertaining to phonotypy; as, a phonotypic alphabet.
Phonotypist (n.) One versed in phonotypy.
Phonotypy (n.) A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character.
Phorminx (n.) A kind of lyre used by the Greeks.
Phormium (n.) A genus of liliaceous plants, consisting of one species (Phormium tenax). See Flax-plant.
Phorone (n.) A yellow crystalline substance, having a geraniumlike odor, regarded as a complex derivative of acetone, and obtained from certain camphor compounds.
Phoronis (n.) A remarkable genus of marine worms having tentacles around the mouth. It is usually classed with the gephyreans. Its larva (Actinotrocha) undergoes a peculiar metamorphosis.
Phoronomia (n.) See Phoronomics.
Phoronomics (n.) The science of motion; kinematics.
Phosgene (a.) Producing, or produced by, the action of light; -- formerly used specifically to designate a gas now called carbonyl chloride. See Carbonyl.
Phosgenite (n.) A rare mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of a white, yellow, or grayish color and adamantine luster. It is a chlorocarbonate of lead.
Phospham (n.) An inert amorphous white powder, PN2H, obtained by passing ammonia over heated phosphorus.
Phosphate (n.) A salt of phosphoric acid.
Phosphatic (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, or phosphates; as, phosphatic nodules.
Phosphaturia (n.) The excessive discharge of phosphates in the urine.
Phosphene (n.) A luminous impression produced through excitation of the retina by some cause other than the impingement upon it of rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed. Cf. After-image.
Phosphide (n.) A binary compound of phosphorus.
Phosphine (n.) A colorless gas, PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen.
Phosphinic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, certain acids analogous to the phosphonic acids, but containing two hydrocarbon radicals, and derived from the secondary phosphines by oxidation.
Phosphite (n.) A salt of phosphorous acid.
Phosphonic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, certain derivatives of phosphorous acid containing a hydrocarbon radical, and analogous to the sulphonic acid.
Phosphonium (n.) The hypothetical radical PH4, analogous to ammonium, and regarded as the nucleus of certain derivatives of phosphine.
Phosphor (n.) Phosphorus.
Phosphor (n.) The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; Lucifer.
Phosphorated (imp. & p. p.) of Phosphorate
Phosphorating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Phosphorate
Phosphorate (v. t.) To impregnate, or combine, with phosphorus or its compounds; as, phosphorated oil.
Phosphor-bronze (n.) A variety of bronze possessing great hardness, elasticity, and toughness, obtained by melting copper with tin phosphide. It contains one or two per cent of phosphorus and from five to fifteen per cent of tin.
Phosphoreous (a.) Phosphorescent.
Phosphoresced (imp. & p. p.) of Phosphoresce
Phosphorescing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Phosphoresce
Phosphoresce (v. i.) To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.
Phosphorescence (n.) The quality or state of being phosphorescent; or the act of phosphorescing.
Phosphorescence (n.) A phosphoric light.
Phosphorescent (a.) Shining with a phosphoric light; luminous without sensible heat.
Phosphorescent (n.) A phosphorescent substance.
Phosphoric (a.) Of or pertaining to phosphorus; resembling, or containing, from us; specifically, designating those compounds in which phosphorus has a higher valence as contrasted with the phosphorous compounds.
Phosphoric (a.) Phosphorescent.
Phosphorical (a.) Phosphoric.
Phosphorite (n.) A massive variety of apatite.
Phosphoritic (a.) Pertaining to phosphorite; resembling, or of the nature of, phosphorite.
Phosphorize (v. t.) To phosphorate.
Phosphorized (a.) Containing, or impregnated with, phosphorus.
Phosphorogenic (a.) Generating phosphorescence; as, phosphorogenic rays.
Phosphoroscope (n.) An apparatus for observing the phosphorescence produced in different bodies by the action of light, and for measuring its duration.
Phosphorous (a.) Of or pertaining to phosphorus; resembling or containing phosphorus; specifically, designating those compounds in which phosphorus has a lower valence as contrasted with phosphoric compounds; as, phosphorous acid, H3PO3.
Phosphori (pl. ) of Phosphorus
Phosphorus (n.) The morning star; Phosphor.
Phosphorus (n.) A poisonous nonmetallic element of the nitrogen group, obtained as a white, or yellowish, translucent waxy substance, having a characteristic disagreeable smell. It is very active chemically, must be preserved under water, and unites with oxygen even at ordinary temperatures, giving a faint glow, -- whence its name. It always occurs compined, usually in phosphates, as in the mineral apatite, in bones, etc. It is used in the composition on the tips of friction matches, and for many other purposes. The molecule contains four atoms. Symbol P. Atomic weight 31.0.
Phosphorus (n.) Hence, any substance which shines in the dark like phosphorus, as certain phosphorescent bodies.
Phosphoryl (n.) The radical PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds.
Phosphuret (n.) A phosphide.
Phosphureted (a.) Impregnated, or combined, with phosphorus.
Photic (a.) Relating to the production of light by the lower animals.
Photics (n.) The science of light; -- a general term sometimes employed when optics is restricted to light as a producing vision.
Photos (pl. ) of Photo
Photo (n.) A contraction of Photograph.
Photo- () A combining form from Gr. fw^s, fwto`s, light; as, photography, phototype, photometer.
Photobiotic (a.) Requiring light to live; incapable of living without light; as, photobiotic plant cells.
Photochemical (a.) Of or pertaining to chemical action of light, or produced by it; as, the photochemical changes of the visual purple of the retina.
Photochemistry (n.) The branch of chemistry which relates to the effect of light in producing chemical changes, as in photography.
Photochromic (a.) Alt. of Photochromatic
Photochromatic (a.) Of or pertaining to photochromy; produced by photochromy.
Photochromy (n.) The art or process of reproducing colors by photography.
Photodrome (n.) An apparatus consisting of a large wheel with spokes, which when turning very rapidly is illuminated by momentary flashes of light passing through slits in a rotating disk. By properly timing the succession of flashes the wheel is made to appear to be motionless, or to rotate more or less slowly in either direction.
Photo-electric (a.) Acting by the operation of both light and electricity; -- said of apparatus for producing pictures by electric light.
Photo-electrotype (n.) An electrotype plate formed in a mold made by photographing on prepared gelatine, etc.
Photo-engraving (n.) The process of obtaining an etched or engraved plate from the photographic image, to be used in printing; also, a picture produced by such a process.
Photo-epinasty (n.) A disproportionately rapid growth of the upper surface of dorsiventral organs, such as leaves, through the stimulus of exposure to light.
Photogalvanography (n.) The art or process of making photo-electrotypes.