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VISIBLE SPEECH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does visible speech mean?
• VISIBLE SPEECH (noun)
The noun VISIBLE SPEECH has 2 senses:
1. a phonetic alphabet invented by Melville Bell in the 19th century
2. spectrogram of speech; speech displayed spectrographically
Familiarity information: VISIBLE SPEECH used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A phonetic alphabet invented by Melville Bell in the 19th century
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("visible speech" is a kind of...):
phonetic alphabet; sound alphabet (an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Spectrogram of speech; speech displayed spectrographically
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("visible speech" is a kind of...):
spectrogram; spectrograph (a photographic record of a spectrum)
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