01 n. A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.
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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).
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A record of sounds made by a phonograph.