microphone
/ˈmʌɪkrəfəʊn
/noun
An instrument for converting sound waves into electrical energy variations which may then be amplified, transmitted, or recorded.We don't take up much room and don't have any amplifiers or microphones to encumber us....
- Should drum beating or use of microphones and loudspeakers that disturbs the peace of neighbourhood be permitted?
- The rangers set up underwater microphones attached to amplifiers on the jetty.
Derivatives
microphonic
- She broke a string on her Les Paul right on the first song, then switched to a Firebird which kept shrieking due to some kind of microphonic problem with the pickups not liking the distortion effect or something.
- The low frequency tone emitted in flight is plainly audible to the ear and microphonic filtering yielded the wing beat frequency, as Sotavalta reliably showed for many insect species.
- Every little sound echoed causing somewhat of a microphonic effect.
- Powell, Lake
- Powell, Lewis Franklin
- Powell, Michael
- power
- powerable
- power alley
- power amp
- power amplifier
- power assist
- power assistance
- power-assisted
- power ballad
- powerband
- power bandwidth
- power bar
- power base
- powerbeads
- power behind the throne
- power bloc
- power block
- power board
- powerboat
- powerboater
- powerboating
- powerbox