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means A device that spins vinyl discs and reads the grooves cut into them to reproduce recorded sound.

from A straightforward compound: 'record,' from Latin recordari (to remember, to call to mind), came to mean a disc of captured sound by the early 1900s; 'player,' from Old English plegian, is simply the thing that plays it. Put together, the phrase names exactly what it does — no hidden story, just two honest words stuck together as phonographs and gramophones became household machines.