annunciator

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The electric annunciator is a device that will indicate or record the various calls or signals that may be sent over the circuits to which the annunciator is connected.

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  1. noun One that announces, especially an electrical signaling device used in hotels or offices to indicate the sources of calls on a switchboard.

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  • Projected on one wall was a picture of the cabman facing the lobby annunciator, fifty-three stories down. —  SEPTEMBER, 1953 Vol
  • The squealing buzzer was attached to the hospital fire alarm Doc Savage joined a rush for the annunciator which would show the location of the fire. —  067 - The Red Terrors
  • I stepped in there, turned up the gas, looked at the annunciator, and turned off the alarm—so far as the door indicated was concerned—thus stopping the racket. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Chapters From My Autobiography, by Mark Twain.
  • Housing HUD -- Homelessness prevention & rapid rehousing $712,755; Transit replacement of buses, fare boxes and voice annunciator system $25,675,100; Highways WisDOT Economic Recovery —  OnMilwaukee.com
  • In the first photo below, note the annunciator box on the wall with flags that identify different rooms in the house.
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  1. Latin, prop, annuntiator, adnuntiator, from annuntiare: see annunciate, v., announce.
 

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/æˈnənsɪeɪtər/
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