Definition of Microphones

1. Noun. (plural of microphone) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of microphone) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Microphones

1. microphone [n] - See also: microphone

Lexicographical Neighbors of Microphones

microphagocyte
microphanerophyte
microphanerophytes
microphase
microphases
microphenocryst
microphenocrystic
microphenocrysts
microphenomena
microphenomenon
microphobia
microphone
microphone boom
microphoned
microphones (current term)
microphonia
microphonic
microphonics
microphoning
microphonoscope
microphonous
microphotograph
microphotographic
microphotographs
microphotography
microphotometer
microphotometers
microphotometry
microphthalmia

Literary usage of Microphones

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Wireless Telegraphy by Jonathan Adolf Wilhelm Zenneck (1915)
"microphones.—Whenever great ranges are required, so that a large amount of ... This at once eliminates the ordinary microphones built for small currents. ..."

2. The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph by Th. Du Moncel (1879)
"... microphones have been devised by different makers and inventors, such as those ... and two microphones are arranged on cither side of it, with vertical ..."

3. Electricity in the Service of Man: A Popular and Practical Treatise on the by Alfred Urbanitzky (1886)
"The pressure of the contact between the two pieces a and b is regulated by the weight G. Wreden constructed microphones also of six and more contacts. ..."

4. Earthquakes and Other Earth Movements by John Milne (1899)
"... microphones, pendulums — Work in Italy—Bertelli, Count Malvasia, MS di Kossi—Instruments employed in Italy— ..."

5. Adaag Manual: A Guide to the Americans With Disabilities Act Accessibility edited by Evan Terry, Evan Terry Associates (1998)
"Recommendations: Both systems can share sound sources (microphones, mixers, tape players, VCRs) but not all microphones of a public address system work well ..."

6. Bell's Electric Speaking Telephone: Its Invention, Construction, Application by George Bartlett Prescott (1884)
"Instruments of this nature have since become known as microphones, though it is not probable that faint sounds were ever augmented through their agency so ..."

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