English dictionary

microphone

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Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

noun

device for converting sound waves into electrical energy

noun.artifact

Synonyms mike

Source: WordNet 3.0
An instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeble sounds. It produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations.

noun

Source: webster1913