This standard shall cover definitions of terms that are generally referred to between manufacturers and users and shall define accepted nomenclature for commonly applied component and operating descriptions as related to automatic record changers and manual phonographs.

It is intended that this standard shall prevent or minimize misunderstandings of descriptions of components and titles for functional directions of record changers and manual phonographs.

The descriptions of components, devices and titles refer primarily to record changers and manual phonographs. The descriptions listed do not necessarily include every name generally affixed to such items, nor do the items under consideration in this standard constitute every phase that may be advisable to be included in the standard.