Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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adj
Describing sound effects created to accompany radio broadcasts as background music.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Describing a type of sound art practice that extends the established radio drama and documentary form by the use of sonic abstractions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Of or pertaining to the radiophone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
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adjective
relating to or by means of radiotelephony
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: radiotelephonic
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History
* radio- + -phonic * (sound art practice): Perhaps first used by Pierre Schaeffer in his Essai Radiophoniques and subsequently taken up by the BBC to describe their famous BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
