Definition of Diphone

1. Noun. (context: phonetics) An adjacent pair of phones. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Diphone

1. a shorthand sign for a diphthong [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diphone

diphenylketone
diphenylmethane
diphenylmethane dyes
diphenylmethane laxatives
diphenylmethanes
diphenylmethanol
diphenylmethanols
diphenylmethanone
diphenylmethylpiperazine
diphenylmethylpiperazines
diphenylprolinol
diphenylpyraline
diphenylpyraline hydrochloride
diphenyls
diphenyltetrazolium
diphone (current term)
diphones
diphosgene
diphosgenes
diphosphatase
diphosphate
diphosphates
diphosphepane
diphosphepine
diphosphide
diphosphides
diphosphinane
diphosphine
diphosphines
diphosphinine

Literary usage of Diphone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Everyday: Views on Ambient Intelligenceby Stefano Marzano by Stefano Marzano (2003)
"Speech synthesis - diphone synthesis The physical properties of speech sounds ... A diphone extends roughly from the second half of one sound into the first ..."

2. Brief Course in Isaac Pitman Shorthand by Isaac Pitman (1914)
"(a) A dot vowel immediately followed by another vowel is indicated by the diphone * thus _S sahib, . ..."

3. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1881)
"... received a full share of attention for a journal which defines its chief aim to be to supply the wants of the general practitioner. The au" diphone and ..."

4. Trukese-English Dictionary =: Pwpwuken Tettenin Fóós, Chuuk-Ingenes by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1980)
"a species of land bird (small, with white and orange breast and gray back, probably the bush warbler, Cettia diphone). warded warded off (?). pei (vi. ..."

5. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1880)
"4 U'diphone, an instrument to assist the hearing. A thin rectangular sheet of /\ substance resembling ebonite, provided with и handle, and having tliu ..."

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