D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

allophone

· IPA /ˈæləˌfoʊn/
01 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 allophone…
  1. 1.
    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.