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radiophonic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.50 in modern English

Syllables
ra-dio-phon-ic
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Describing sound effects created to accompany radio broadcasts as background music.

adj

Describing a type of sound art practice that extends the established radio drama and documentary form by the use of sonic abstractions.

adj

Of or pertaining to the radiophone.

Obsolete

Etymology

* radio- + -phonic * (sound art practice): Perhaps first used by Pierre Schaeffer in his Essai Radiophoniques and subsequently taken up by the BBC to describe their famous BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Derived Forms

radiophonically

Synonyms

radiotelephonic

Questions

What does radiophonic mean?
Describing sound effects created to accompany radio broadcasts as background music.
Where does radiophonic come from?
* radio- + -phonic * (sound art practice): Perhaps first used by Pierre Schaeffer in his Essai Radiophoniques and subsequently taken up by the BBC to describe their famous BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

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