Associations to the word «Diaphone»

Wiktionary

DIAPHONE, noun. A kind of organ pipe.
DIAPHONE, noun. A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air.
DIAPHONE, noun. (linguistics) A particular dialectal variant of a phoneme.
DIAPHONE, noun. All the dialectal variants of a phoneme, considered as a whole.

Dictionary definition

DIAPHONE, noun. A foghorn that makes a signal consisting of two tones.

Wise words

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C. S. Lewis