These are the meanings of the letters PHONAUTOGRAPH when you unscramble them.
- Pantograph (n.)
An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.
- Phonograph (n.)
A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.
- Phonograph (n.)
An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration, and reproduce the sound.
- Photograph (n.)
A picture or likeness obtained by photography.
- Photograph (v. i.)
To practice photography; to take photographs.
- Photograph (v. t.)
To take a picture or likeness of by means of photography; as, to photograph a view; to photograph a group.