Definition of phonetic alphabet Phonetic alphabet

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We found 4 definitions of phonetic alphabet from 3 different sources.

What does phonetic alphabet mean?

Noun
phonetic alphabet - an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech
		sound alphabet
		alphabet a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
		visible speech spectrogram of speech; speech displayed spectrographically

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phonetic alphabet (Noun)
A writing system used for transcribing the sounds of human speech into writing.
phonetic alphabet (Noun)
A list of standard words used to identify letters.