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gramophone definition

☆ gramo·phone (gram′ə fōn′)

noun

Chiefly Brit. phonograph

Etymology: so named (1887) by E. Berliner, U.S. inventor, by arbitrary inversion of phonogram

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