Phonography
a description of the sounds uttered by the organs of speech.
Also the representation of sounds by certain characters, each of which represents one sound, and always the same sound .
Its special application is to alphabetical writing, in which sounds or articulations are represented by signs or letters, as opposed to the system in which the representation is by ideas, symbols, or cipher. Specifically, a method of writing, or graphically representing language, invented by Isaac Pitman, of Bath, England. See SHORTHAND. Also the art of using, or registering by means of, the phonograph; the construction of phonographs.