MICROPHONE

microphone, mike, mic

(noun) device for converting sound waves into electrical energy

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

microphone (plural microphones)

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

Usage notes

• The collective noun for several microphones (such as can be observed at a press conference) is a garden of microphones.

Synonyms

• (transducer of sound waves to electricity): mic, mike

Verb

microphone (third-person singular simple present microphones, present participle microphoning, simple past and past participle microphoned)

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

Synonyms

• mike, mike up, bug (if covert), wire up

Anagrams

• neomorphic, pheromonic

Source: Wiktionary

Mi"cro*phone, n. Etym: [Micro- + Gr. microphone.] (Physics)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition