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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A standardized set of symbols used in phonetic transcription.
- noun Any of various systems of code words for identifying letters in voice communication.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A writing system used for
transcribing the sounds of human speech into writing. - noun A list of standard
words used to identifyletters .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech
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