phon ascetics (fonasetiks)

[ Phonautograph. these vibrations with great perfection. the membrane vibrates, and the writing-point registers 2. Same as music - recorder . phonautographic (fō-na-to-grafik), a . [ pho- phonikon At a meeting of the Physical Society of Paris, Guebhard showed that even the films condensed from the breath may exhibit phoneidoscopic properties. ... = = Quoted in Smithsonian Report , 1880, p. 274. phonetic (fō-net'ik), a . [= F. phonétique = Sp. fonético Pg . phonetico It. fonetico (cf. G. phonetisch ), phonetic us , φωνητικός , of or pertaining to sound or voice, phonetic, vocal, φωνεῖν , produce a sound, speak, φωνή , a sound, tone, prop. the sound of the voice (of man or brute): see phone1.] 1. Relating or pertaining to the human voice as used in speech; concerning articulate sounds, their mode of production, relations, combinations, and changes: as, phonetic science; phonetic decay. - 2. Representing articulate sounds or utterance: as, a phonetic mode of writing (in contradistinction to an ideographic or pictorial mode); a pho netic mode of spelling (in contradistinction to a traditional, historical, or so-called etymological mode, such as the current spelling of English, in which letters representing or supposed to represent former and obsolete utterance are retained or inserted according to chances of time, caprice, or imperfect knowledge).-3. In entom ., as used by Kirby, noting the collar or prothorax of a hymenopterous insect when it embraces the mesothorax and the posterior angles cover the mesothoracic or so-called vocal spiracles. Phonetic shorthand, a system of shorthand or stenography in which words are represented by their sounds, and not by their spelling as in ordinary longhand writing; phonography. All systems of shorthand in use in writing English are phonetic, the phonetic principle being absolutely nece ary to the requisite brevity.Phonetic spelling, spelling according to sound; the spelling of words as they are pronounced. phonetical (fō-net'i-kal), a. [ phonetically (fō-net'i-kal-i), adv. In a phonetic manner; as regards the sound and not the spelling of words.