diaphone

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diaphone¹

noun diaphones

  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.

diaphone²

Where it comes from

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

noun diaphones

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

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noun sound signal

Русскийдиафо́н diafón

noun phonology: diaphone

Françaisdiaphone
DeutschDiaphon
Italianodiafono

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"diaphone." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/diaphone. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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diaphone. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/diaphone

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"diaphone." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/diaphone.

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@misc{diaphone_2026,
  title = {diaphone},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/diaphone},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}