(of speech or other sound) not voiced, involving movement of the lips or other speech organs but no vocalization
2.
involving the formation of words solely in the mind
subvocal in American English
(sʌbˈvoukəl)
adjective
mentally formulated as words, esp. without vocalization
Word origin
[1920–25; sub- + vocal]This word is first recorded in the period 1920–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: checkout, montage, slalom, superpower, zippersub- is a prefix occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (subject; subtract; subvert; subsidy). On this model, sub- is freely attached to elements of any origin and used with the meaning “under,” “below,”“beneath” (subalpine; substratum), “slightly,” “imperfectly,” “nearly” (subcolumnar; subtropical), “secondary,” “subordinate” (subcommittee; subplot)
Examples of 'subvocal' in a sentence
subvocal
This paper presents a novel methodology to develop a silent dual communication based on subvocal speech.
José Daniel Ramírez-Corzo, Luis Enrique Mendoza 2016, 'Dual silent communication system development based on subvocal speech and RaspberryPi', Revista Facultad de Ingenieríahttp://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/ingenieria/article/view/5304. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)