ALL meanings of international phonetic alphabet
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I i - noun international phonetic alphabet set of symbols representing pronunciation 1
- noun Definition of international phonetic alphabet in Technology (text, human language) (IPA) A system of symbols for representing pronunciation. There is no commonly agreed way to represent IPA in ASCII characters though it can be represented in Unicode. 1
- noun international phonetic alphabet the set of symbols and modifiers designed, principally on the basis of articulatory considerations, to provide a consistent and universally understood system for transcribing the speech sounds of any language: devised by the International Phonetic Association. Abbreviation: IPA, I.P.A. 1
- noun international phonetic alphabet a series of signs and letters propagated by the Association Phonétique Internationale for the representation of human speech sounds. It is based on the Roman alphabet but supplemented by modified signs or symbols from other writing systems, and is usually employed in its revised form of 1951 0
- noun international phonetic alphabet an alphabet (sense 2) for international use, designed to represent each human speech sound by a single symbol 0