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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun phonetics has 1 sense
- phonetics(n = noun.cognition) Array - the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis; Array is a kind of acoustics
Derived forms adjective phonetic2, adjective phonetic1, noun phonetician1
CIDE DICTIONARY
phonetics, n.
- The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology. [1913 Webster]
- The art of representing vocal sounds by signs and written characters. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
phonetics, n.pl. (usu. treated as sing.)
1 vocal sounds and their classification.
2 the study of these.
1 vocal sounds and their classification.
2 the study of these.
Derivative
phonetician n.
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phonetics
ablaut, acoustic phonetics, articulatory phonetics, audiometer, auriscope, auriscopy, betacism, bowwow theory, cacography, comparative linguistics, derivation, descriptive linguistics, dialectology, dingdong theory, etymology, glossematics, glossology, glottochronology, glottology, gradation, grammar, graphemics, historical linguistics, language study, lexicology, lexicostatistics, linguistic geography, linguistic science, linguistics, mathematical linguistics, morphology, morphophonemics, mutation, orthoepy, orthography, otography, otolaryngology, otology, otoneurology, otopathy, otoplasty, otoscope, otoscopy, paleography, philology, phonetic spelling, phonography, phonology, psycholinguistics, rhotacism, semantics, sociolinguistics, sound shift, spelldown, spelling, spelling bee, spelling match, spelling reform, structuralism, syntactics, transformational linguistics, umlautROGET THESAURUS
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Sound
N sound, noise, strain, accent, twang, intonation, tone, cadence, sonorousness, audibility, resonance, voice, aspirate, ideophone, rough breathing, acoustics, phonics, phonetics, phonology, phonography, diacoustics, diaphonics, phonetism, sounding, soniferous, sonorous, sonorific, resonant, audible, distinct, stertorous, phonetic, phonic, phonocamptic, a thousand trills and quivering sounds, forensis strepitus.
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