Usually means: Device recording sound waves visually.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word phonautograph:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. phonautograph: Merriam-Webster
  2. phonautograph: Collins English Dictionary
  3. phonautograph: Wordnik
  4. phonautograph: Wiktionary
  5. Phonautograph, phonautograph: Dictionary.com
  6. Phonautograph: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Phonautograph: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. phonautograph: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Phonautograph: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. phonautograph: FreeDictionary.org
  11. phonautograph: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. Phonautograph: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (phonautograph)

▸ noun:  (historical) A device for recording sound vibrations in a visible form.

Similar:
phonograph, phonogram, phonography, motograph, raphigraph, phonogramme, dictograph, telegraphophone, harmonogram, phonotypy, more...

Opposite:
phonograph, gramophone

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Similar:
phonograph, phonogram, phonography, motograph, raphigraph, phonogramme, dictograph, telegraphophone, harmonogram, phonotypy, more...

Opposite:
phonograph, gramophone



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