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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An early telephone with a diaphragm of soft iron placed close to the pole of a magnet upon which is wound a coil of fine wire. Its vibrations produce corresponding currents in the wire by induction. dated

Etymology

From magneto- + telephone.

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