Wiktionary
n. a light, balanced arm that holds the pickup cartridge on a record player
WordNet
n. mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge [syn: pickup, pickup arm]
Usage examples of "tone arm".
About ten minutes later the record ended and the tone arm swung back.
The music was over and she was conscious of the minute sounds of the tone arm lifting, setting down on its cradle and the turn-table stopping.
She flicked on switches, placed the tone arm down, turned up the volume.
She had some music, a single-shot Decca record player from the fifties with a jackknife attached to the tone arm with rubber bands for weight.
The tone arm descended, and the sound of _The Heart of Hart_ disc, a favorite of his, edged out and echoed through the large living room, with all its drapes beautifully augmenting the natural quad acoust-tones, spotted artfully here and there.
But at this point the tone arm of the phonograph reaches the end of its spiral groove and lifts off the record.
The stereo, you could plow a field with that old needle, and the metal tone arm weighs about two pounds.
Distressingly, though, his head was sitting neatly on the middle of the record which was revolving on the hi-fi turntable, with the tone arm snuggling up against the neck and constantly being deflected back into the same groove.
The arm itself is just over a centimeter long, swinging out on what would've been the tone arm on one of those turntables.