(Linguistics)each of two or more alternative forms of a letter of an alphabet or other grapheme, for example the capital, lower case, italic, and various handwritten forms of a letter (语言学)(字母或字型的)变体(如大写、小写、斜体及其他各种字母手写形式) ■(Phonetics)each of two or more letters or letter-combinations representing a single phoneme in different words. Allographs of the phonemefinclude the (f) of ‘fake’ and the (ph) of ‘phase’ (语音学)音素变体(不同词语中同一单音素由两个或多个或字母组合代表的变体,如音素/f/的变体包括‘fake’中的f和‘phase’中的 ph)