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Definition of Record player
1. Noun. Machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically.
Group relationships: Audio System, Sound System
Terms within: Cartridge, Pickup, Radio Chassis, Auto-changer, Changer, Record Changer, Pickup, Pickup Arm, Tone Arm, Turntable
Specialized synonyms: Acoustic Gramophone, Gramophone, Jukebox, Nickelodeon
Generic synonyms: Machine
Definition of Record player
1. Noun. An analogue electronic device for playing gramophone records. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Record Player
Literary usage of Record player
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"The record player will need special records which will incorporate the vision.
... The record player is the usual size and shape and will cost about £35. ..."
2. Talking, Drawing, Writing: Lessons for Our Youngest Writers by Martha Horn, Mary Ellen Giacobbe (2007)
"Then she'd turn on the record player. We didn't have CDs when I was little, ...
I'll show you a record player sometime. Well, my mother would put on a stack ..."
3. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"As an analogy, it is very much like a faulty record player, which fails to track
properly and plays a record groove over and over until it is nudged into ..."
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