allophone

/ˈæləˌfoʊn/
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Definitions of allophone
  1. noun
    (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
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    phoneme
    (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
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