microphone

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And manning the microphone is the Venerable Vong Savuth who, despite his traditional saffron robes, is comfortable in this cocoon of modern technology, from where he spreads dharma on the airwaves.

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  1. noun An instrument that converts sound waves into an electric current, usually fed into an amplifier, a recorder, or a broadcast transmitter.

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  • This apparatus was called the microphone, and was in reality but one of the many forms that it is possible to give to the telephone transmitter. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • There was nothing like the feeling you had when you stood in a dark club and watched a man lean close to a microphone and imagined the microphone was your ear. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 04] - In Big Trouble
  • It works in the same way, you blow into the end of your iPhone where the microphone is and then place your fingertips over the holes of the virtual recorder on the screen. —  Kris Abel's Tech Life
  • Now, the overwhelming number of low cost options for digital media production means that anyone with a computer and a microphone is a potential recording star, and the demand for tools that enable and encourage personal creativity is surging. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets
  • The compromise I reached is that I use only the headphone part of the BT headset, while the microphone is the one built into the Macbook. —  Discussions: Message List - root
 

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  1. = French microphone = Spanish micrófono, from Greek μικρός, small, + φωνή, voice, sound.
 

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/ˈmaɪkrəfoʊn/
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