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Autophone

The English word “Autophone” has 3 meanings listed here.

proper noun

  1. A brand of coin-operated automatic phonographs with headphones, patented in 1930s.
  2. Several brands of telephones and phone services.
  3. A very early brand of table-top mechanical organette using a punched card to operate the music mechanism.

Etymology

From auto- + -phone.

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