Diaphone

Full definition of diaphone

Noun

1. A kind of organ pipe.
2. A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air.

Dia(lect) + phone

Noun

1. (linguistics) A particular dialectal variant of a phoneme.
2. All the dialectal variants of a phoneme, considered as a whole.

Related terms

• diaphoneme
• diaphonic