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Triphone vs Trimphone - What's the difference?

triphone | trimphone |

As nouns the difference between triphone and trimphone

is that triphone is (phonetics) a triplet of adjacent phones while trimphone is (uk) a luxury telephone of the 1960s with a then-innovative electronic ringer and illuminated dial.

triphone

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (phonetics) A triplet of adjacent phones.

    • trimphone

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK) A luxury telephone of the 1960s with a then-innovative electronic ringer and illuminated dial.
  • * 1983 , New Scientist (volume 98, number 1353, 14 April 1983)
    • Song thrushes normally have a large song repertoire, and Slater suggests that the trimphone sound has been taken up because it is sufficiently similar to the normal songs to be learned and imitated
  • * 1986 , Barry Strickland-Hodge, Barbara Allan, Medical information: a profile (page 54)
    • While an acoustic coupler can be used with ordinary telephones, it cannot be used with modern trimphones