allophone

/al-uh-fohn/US // ˈæl əˌfoʊn //UK // (ˈæləˌfəʊn) //

同音字,同音词,同音异义词,同音

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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Phonetics.
- : any of the members of a class of speech sounds that, taken together, are commonly felt to be a phoneme, as the t-sounds of toe, stow, tree, hatpin, catcall, cats, catnip, button, metal, city; a speech sound constituting one of the phonetic manifestations or variants of a particular phoneme.