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noun a device in certain types of telecommunications equipment, as telephone answering machines, that converts an incoming voice or sound signal into an electrical signal that turns on a transmitter or recorder that continues to operate as long as the incoming signal is maintained.
Origin of VOX acronym from voice-operated keying, altered to conform to Latin vōx voice
Words nearby VOX vowelize, vowel mutation, vowel point, vowels, vowel system, VOX , vox angelica, vox barbara, voxel, vox et praeterea nihil, vox humana
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Example sentences from the Web for VOX News stories like this one at Vox expressed the consensus view that we were now allying with Assad.
Is Obama Done Playing Footsie With Assad? | Michael Tomasky| November 17, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Vox also catalogues the many Republicans, from Newt Gingrich to George W. Bush, who publicly talked about the climate crisis.
Obama’s New Emissions Rules Will Yank the Climate Change Debate Back Into Reality | Sally Kohn| June 2, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Which brings me to the bone that remains to be picked with Vox , helpful as their tidy summary of the CDC data was.
Today’s Clean-Cut Teens: Less Sex, Less Drugs | Russell Saunders| May 28, 2014| DAILY BEAST
A recent Vox article, which calls to reduce doctor pay, struck many physicians as particularly off the mark.
Why Primary-Care Physicians Need a Minimum Wage | Daniela Drake| May 13, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Timothy B. Lee has a good visual aid at Vox showing exactly how this occurs.
How to Mitigate the Damage of the Heartbleed Security Hole | Joshua Kopstein| April 11, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Nor does he seem to have held, like Rousseau, the vox populi as the voice of God.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume III | John Lord
In all time past it has been conceded that the maxim, "vox populi, vox dei," is true when taken in its broad or universal sense.
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 | Various
His careful fingers found a chord, and the yellow notes responded with their sweet, thin cadence--the vox humana stop was out.
The Happy Venture | Edith Ballinger Price
To this it ought to be applauded, Nec vox hominem sonat: it is a voice beyond the light of nature.
The Advancement of Learning | Francis Bacon
Indeed, it is doubtful whether the vox populi would have allowed the expedition but for these more sentimental considerations.
The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) | John Holland Rose
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British Dictionary definitions for VOX noun plural voces (ˈvəʊsiːz ) Word Origin for vox Latin: voice
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