Phonation

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Phonation \Pho*na"tion\, n. [Gr. fwnh` the voice.]
     The act or process by which articulate sounds are uttered;
     the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  phonation
       n : the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by
           the resonance of the vocal tract; "a singer takes good
           care of his voice"; "the giraffe cannot make any
           vocalizations" [syn: {voice}, {vocalization}, {vocalisation},
            {vox}]