metaphone

Speech parts

1. metaphone - Noun

2. Metaphone - Proper noun

Meaning

Metaphone

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metaphone (plural metaphones)

(linguistics) Either of two or more phonemes that have meaning when used together

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Examples

Common misconceptions There are a couple of misconceptions about the Metaphone algorithms that should be addressed. Source: Internet

Developers can also now set switches in code to cause the algorithm to encode Metaphone keys 1) taking non-initial vowels into account, as well as 2) encoding voiced and unvoiced consonants differently. Source: Internet

Double Metaphone main The Double Metaphone phonetic encoding algorithm is the second generation of this algorithm. Source: Internet

It makes a number of fundamental design improvements over the original Metaphone algorithm. Source: Internet

It should be noted, however, that this table does not constitute a complete description of the original Metaphone algorithm, and the algorithm cannot be coded correctly from it. Source: Internet

Metaphone 3 A professional version was released in October 2009, developed by the same author, Lawrence Philips. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

metaphilosophically metaphilosophy metaphloem metaphonic metaphonical metaphonically