Meanings
plural auxetophones
- historicalA pneumatic type of sound-playback device used in the early part of the twentieth century.
It was something that had come out during the séance tonight, none of which Madame Eskimoff had any direct memory of, although like all T.W.I.T.-sanctioned sittings, it had been recorded by means of a Parsons-Short Auxetophone.
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 256
Origin
- Ancient Greekαὐξητός“that can be increased”
- Englishauxetophone
Formed from Ancient Greek αὐξητός (auxētós, “that can be increased”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).
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