phon

Phon stands for

• a word component from the Greek for 'voice', 'sound', 'loud', 'tone'; see list of Greek word stems in German foreign words # Ph
• Phon (unit) , in acoustics a unit of measurement for the volume level

Linguistics:

• Phon (phonetics) , the smallest phonetic segment of a linguistic utterance
• a term of speech act theory (after Austin) meaning “result of the phonetic act as a partial aspect of the locutive act”, ie a concrete completed utterance, see speech act theory

See also:

Wiktionary: Phon  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Hairdryer

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.