"graphogram" meaning in English

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          "text": "Coordinate term: graphophone"
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          "ref": "1880 August 7, R.W. Haynes, the Third Assistant Postmaster-General, Official Opinions of the Assistant-General for the Post-Office Department from April 29, 1885, to March 17, 1892. Number from 487 to 1030, inclusive. Volume II, Washington: Government Printing Office, published 1905, Opinion No. 868, page 718:",
          "text": "Sir: I am in receipt of your communication of the 21th 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 graphograms designations now commonly applied to messages impressed on wax cylinders by the phonograph and graphophone,“ and requesting that I give you my opinion upon the question.\nIn answer to the above inquiry I have the honor to state that I have examined into the subject with the view of ascertaining whether such phonograms or graphograms would be included within that class of matter designated as first, third, or fourth class.\n These “graphograms,” I understand, are the wax cylinders upon which the messages are impressed and after such indentations are made become the means of transmitting a communication which can be read and understood by placing the cylinder so stamped or impressed in an instrument specially constructed for its use, and which transmits by sound the language indented on the wax cylinder. Before use the cylinder is properly classed as an article of merchandise, or fourth class matter; after use it possesses a different degree of value and classification, inasmuch as it then represents a message, letter, or communication from one person to another, rendered possible to be understood by a system of mechanism that from the series of minute indentures contained on the wax reproduces the human voice.",
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        "(obsolete) A wax cylinder on which a message is recorded."
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        "(obsolete) some nonsense in graphology, probably several kinds thereof."
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          "text": "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 ‘loan-translation’ of the title, the underlying Sanskrit word can only be Siddhasāra;",
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          "text": "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 ‘loan-translation’ of the title, the underlying Sanskrit word can only be Siddhasāra;",
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