Gramophone \Gram"o*phone\, n. [Gr. ? a thing drawn or written (fr. ? write) + -phone, as in telephone.]

An instrument for recording, preserving, and reproducing sounds, the record being a tracing of a phonautograph etched in some solid material. Reproduction is accomplished by means of a system attached to an elastic diaphragm.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)