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Definition of: allophone
(al′ə·fōn) noun Phonet.
Any of the non-distinctive variants of a phoneme: The velar (k) of coop and the palatal (k) of keep are allophones of the phoneme ̸. [<ALLO- + Gk. phōnē a sound, voice]
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