phonocamptic

English

Etymology

From phono- + Ancient Greek [Term?] (“to bend”). Compare French phonocamptique.

Adjective

phonocamptic (not comparable)

1. Reflecting sound.
   • 1786, William Derham, Derham's Physico and Astro Theology:

     […] magnifying the sound by the polyphonisms or repercussions of the rocks, caverns, and other phonocamptic objects below in the mount.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “phonocamptic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)