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phonation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun phonation has 1 sense
- phonation(n = noun.communication) vocalisation, vocalism, vocalization, voice, vox - the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract; "a singer takes good care of his voice"; "the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations" is a kind of communication
has particulars: singing voice, sprechgesang, sprechstimme, voice over
Derived form verb phonate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
phonation, n. [Gr. the voice.].
The act or process by which articulate sounds are uttered; the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech. [1913 Webster]
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