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Webster 1913 Edition
Phonogram
Pho′no-gram
,Noun.
[
Phono-
+ -gram
.] 1.
A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.
Phonograms
are of three kinds: (1) Verbal signs, which stand for entire words; (2) Syllabic signs, which stand for the articulations of which words are composed; (3) Alphabetic signs, or letters, which represent the elementary sounds into which the syllable can be resolved. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).
2.
A record of sounds made by a phonograph.