phonograph needle

1. 1.

   a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record

   Synonymsneedle

   Broaderstylus

Questions about phonograph needle

What does phonograph needle mean?

phonograph needle means "a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record".

What is another word for phonograph needle?

Close synonyms include needle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is phonograph needle a common word?

phonograph needle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.