'Voiceless stop' definitions:

Definition of 'Voiceless stop'

From: GCIDE

Voiceless \Voice"less\, a.
1. Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb. [1913 Webster]
I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
2. (Phon.) Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd. [1913 Webster]
Voiceless stop (Phon.), a consonant made with no audible sound except in the transition to or from another sound; a surd mute, as p, t, k. [1913 Webster] -- {Voice"less*ly}, adv. -- {Voice"less*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]