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visible speech

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: visible speech

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n
spectrogram of speech; speech displayed spectrographically
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n
a phonetic alphabet invented by Melville Bell in the 19th century
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: visible speech
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n spectrogram of speech; speech displayed spectrographically

Type of:
spectrogram, spectrograph
a photographic record of a spectrum
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n a phonetic alphabet invented by Melville Bell in the 19th century

Type of:
phonetic alphabet, sound alphabet
an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech
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