1) Canadian invention 2) Foghorn 3) The broad
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The diaphone is a noisemaking device best known for its use as a foghorn: It can produce deep, powerful tones, able to carry a long distance. Although they have fallen out of favor, diaphones were also used at some fire stations and in other situations where a loud, audible signal was required. ==History== The diaphone horn was based directly on t...
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[moth] Diaphone is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family. ...
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a special type of organ pipe, producing tone by using a felt hammer to beat air through the resonator; Common on theater organs, it is not often seen on church and concert instruments.
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low-pitched fog signal consisting of two tones
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(from the article `lighthouse`) About the beginning of the 20th century, compressed-air fog signals, which sounded a series of blasts, were developed. The most widely used were the ...
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n] - a foghorn that makes a signal consisting of two tones
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diaphone 1. A set of all the different ways that a particular speech sound is pronounced in all the dialects of a language, or a member of this set. 2. A foghorn with a two-note sound. 3. A powerful pipe-organ stop of the peculiar construction of 8-foot, 16-foot, or 32-foot pitch.
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noun a foghorn that makes a signal consisting of two tones
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a foghorn producing a low-pitched, penetrating signal of two tones. · The broad · a phoneme in one dialect corresponding to a similar but phonetically different phoneme in a related dialect. · a group of sounds comprising all the phonetically different dialectal variants of a given phoneme in a language:The broada and flat a of “...
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