Meaning

3 senses
  1. A kind of organ pipe.

  2. A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air.

    диафо́нdiafón

  3. A particular dialectal variant of a phoneme; all the dialectal variants of a phoneme, considered as a whole.

    Diaphon

More definitions
  • a foghorn that makes a signal consisting of two tones

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
sound signal:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
phonology: diaphone:

Origin

From dia- + phone (i.e., dia(lect) + phone).

From dia- + phone (i.e., dia(lect) + phone).

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Forms

plural: diaphones
Singulardiaphone
Pluraldiaphones

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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