microphone

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for microphone.

Home Featured words Jump to examples

Editorial note

To me the most compelling feature of the laptop is the hardware switches to toggle the camera, microphone, bluetooth, and wifi.

Examples14

Definitions2

Parts of speech2

Quick take

(transitive) To put one or more microphones on or in.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of microphone gathered in one view.

verb

(transitive) To put one or more microphones on or in.

noun

A device (transducer) used to convert sound waves into a varying electric current; normally fed into an amplifier and either recorded or transmitted over radio.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for microphone.

verb

(transitive) To put one or more microphones on or in.

noun

A device (transducer) used to convert sound waves into a varying electric current; normally fed into an amplifier and either recorded or transmitted over radio.

Example sentences

To me the most compelling feature of the laptop is the hardware switches to toggle the camera, microphone, bluetooth, and wifi.

Maybe because the policeman is carrying the microphone?

There's hardly anywhere in my house where a software controlled microphone can't hear and that bothers me.

Of course, a microphone was designed with high bandwidth in mind, while accelerometers probably value more precision around the DC input.

VT-d and TPM to support Qubes) and privacy (hardware switches for camera, wireless and microphone).

People are walking around with a microphone and camera on them all day.

Theoretically I can use an external microphone with it to record notes or thoughts during the day.

In the last link that I gave, there is a recommended microphone that Tavis Rudd uses.

How will you deny the DV box (or even unlabeled camera & microphone) in your meeting area when the feds suddenly raid the place?

I read that as advocating going to a conference room to yell into your skype microphone.

Very interesting hardware; I particularly like the hardware killswitches for the sensors (microphone and camera) and radios (WiFI & Bluetooth).

You probably need a directional noise canceling microphone, but not headphones.

Quote examples

Soon we'll all have to wear brown paper bags over our heads and speak through a gender-neutral, computer generated microphone voice lest someone gets upset or gets an "unfair" advantage.

An accelerometer is essentially indistinguishable microphone also capable of detecting sounds all the way "DC" sound (where 'sound' is applied force on the accelerometer itself rather than a pressure plate that reacts to air pressure) -- if it's sampling rate is fast enough and it is coupled to the structure (i.e.