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noun

Phonetics n.

The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology.

The art of representing vocal sounds by signs and written characters.

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Etymology of 'Phonetics'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... memory and devotion to grammar, if not to history, which have characterized the Brahmans for at least twenty-five centuries. The authenticity of certain Vedic texts is guaranteed not only by the quotations found in later works, but by treatises on phonetics, grammar and versification as well as by indices which give the number of words in every book, chapter and verse. We may be sure that we possess not perhaps the exact words of the Vedic poets, but what were believed about 600 B.C. ...

— Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) - An Historical Sketch • Charles Eliot

... such simple lines as in the examples given above, where both parts are pictorial characters, one the "phonetic," representing the sound, and the other, commonly known as the "radical," giving a clue to the sense. In the first place, most of the phonetics now existing are not simple pictograms, but themselves more or less complex characters made up in a variety of ways. On analysing, for instance, the word [Ch] hsuen, "to withdraw," we find it is composed of the phonetic ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 - "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" • Various

Words linked to "Phonetics" : long, sound, constricted, phonetic, phone, short, dissimilate, assimilate, speech sound, phonetician, tense, lax