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loudspeaker

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Word definitions for loudspeaker in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An electromechanical transducer that converts an electrical signal into audible sound. 2 An encasing containing one or more loudspeaker devices and usually other electrical equipment such as a driver.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Because treble frequencies are directional and bass frequencies are not, standing in front of a loudspeaker cabinet always gives a brighter sound. ▪ Broadcasting via a system of street loudspeakers the radio is on the air for ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A loudspeaker (or loud-speaker or speaker ) is an electroacoustic transducer ; which converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound . The first primitive loudspeakers were invented during the development of telephone systems in the late ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
loudspeaker \loudspeaker\ n. A device which converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance, usually outdoors; it is used to amplify or transmit over a distance speech from a person, who is typically speaking into a microphone. ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance [syn: speaker , speaker unit , loudspeaker system , speaker system ]

Usage examples of loudspeaker.

Groundbugs filled the roadway, pedestrians the sidewalks, a sailor, a pilot, a raftman, a fisher, a hunter, a farmer, a whore, a secretary, a drunk about to collapse, another drunk getting belligerent at a monitor, a man gaunt and hairy and ragged who stood on a corner and shouted of some obscure salvation, endless human seething, shrilling, chattering, through engine rumble, foot shuffle, raucousness blared out of loudspeakers.

Inside the towers are the searchlights, the monitor videocams, the loudspeakers, the controls for locking the gates, the tear-gas nozzles, the long-range sprayguns.

D-112, an eight-man bunkroom, and Sam was showing him how to set the lock on the one empty locker when there was a distant call on a loudspeaker.

German Army had spoiled and ravaged the lands of Russia, we could scarcely expect to be received with such open arms as the blandishing of the trench loudspeakers sought to persuade us would be the case.

The spell of the play was not yet cast on them, the occult masked figures on the skene below, the voices of gods and doomed kings manifested by loudspeakers with terrifying intimacy even on the highest benches.

He landed and set up an ultrasensitive shotgun microphone, hooked to a powerful amplifier and loudspeaker.

At present the loudspeaker is the enemy of the creative writer, but this may not necessarily remain true when the volume and scope of broadcasting increase.

As he listened to the countdown being announced over the loudspeakers in the VIP area, he was eager and anticipant, but not yet in awe.

The loudspeaker above the Asdic cabinet crackled urgently, the voice hurried, insistent.

Then, slapping shoulders and joking, about half of them had crowded through the door when in the passageway the loudspeaker bawled, "Now belay that last word.

Renny's voice bawled out of the loudspeaker: "That queer centipede that disappeared after clawin' up the elevator starter -- well, it showed up again.

It would take an army of priests, a water cannon filled with holy water, a loudspeaker to pronounce the benedictions.

There was a loudspeaker on top of the Buick's roof, and now it began to give off amplified boops and beeps, followed by the scratchy sounds of an old record's opening grooves, and then, blaring up and down the spectral, deserted streets of Des Moines came the sweetly droning voice of Mother Maybelle Carter, singing "Keep on the Sunny Side.

The voice emanated from the loudspeakers built into the entertainment center.

In the Enterprise ready room, the fliers listened avidly to the jocular, occasionally obscene radio exchanges pouring from the loudspeaker as the Hornet planes found the two cripples and plastered them with half-ton bomb hits.