фоне́ма — meaning in English

English meaning

• phone noun A device used to talk to someone over a distance, especially a mobile device that also runs apps.
• phoneme noun (phonetics) The smallest unit of sound that changes meaning in a language, made up of one or more actual spoken sounds.

Senses

фоне́ма is used for these senses in English:

• phone (phonetics) A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.
• phoneme (phonology) An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.

phone — full definition

1. noun A device used to talk to someone over a distance, especially a mobile device that also runs apps.
2. verb To call someone using a telephone.

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