ENG


Meaning of ENG in English

/eng/ , n.

the symbol, n, that, in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in the pronunciation alphabets of some dictionaries, represents the voiced velar nasal consonant indicated in this dictionary by /ng/ , as in the pronunciations of cling /kling/ and clink /klingk/ . Also called agma, angma .

[ 1955-60; by analogy with the names of m and n ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .