Allophone

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

  allophone \allophone\ n.
     any one of two or more speech sounds that considered variants
     of the same phoneme. For example, the p sounds of pin and
     spin are allophones of p; and the t sounds of toe stop and
     catnip are allophones of t.
     [PJC]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  allophone
       n : (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of
           the same phoneme