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Dictaphone definition

☆ Dic·ta·phone (dik′tə fōn′)

a machine that records spoken words so that they can be played back later for typed transcripts, etc.

Etymology: dicta(te) + -phone

noun

any such machine

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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