graphogram

Noun

1. A wax cylinder on which a message is recorded.
   • Sir: I am in receipt of your communication of the 21st ultimo wherein you say “there appears to be a diversity of opinions among postmasters relative to the rate of postage properly chargeable on phonograms and...

   Coordinate Terms: graphophone

2. some nonsense in graphology, probably several kinds thereof.
3. A written inkling of a name in a writing system incompletely rendering the phonological system of a language.
   • nowhere in Sanskrit literature do we find an individual’s name, never mind an astrologer’s name, which could have served even remotely as a base form for the Arabic graphograms. […] In the face of these findings, any...
   • Thus, Manfred Ullmann (after the Sanskritist Adolf Stenzler) wants to amend the Arabic graphograms […] the Indologist Ronald Emmerick has demonstrated that solely on the basis of the Arabic graphograms and the Arabic...