Phone

If you are looking for a device to transmit speech, abbreviated phone, see telephone. In phonetics and phonology, a phone is a speech sound considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the sound system of a language. Compare with phoneme, a set of phones that carry the same meaning.

See also

\n* allophone\n* List of phonetics topics

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Phone is a colloquial term for telephone; it is also a verb meaning to call someone on a telephone. \n\n