2. Verb. (third-person singular of microphone) ¹
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Definition of Microphones
1. microphone [n] - See also: microphone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Microphones
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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