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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A device that produces a visible display of the mechanical properties of a sounding body, especially of musical instruments.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A machine for recording music as it is played or sung, or for testing the quality of strings for musical instruments.
- noun Same as
microphone .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument for observing or exhibiting the motions or properties of sounding bodies; especially, an apparatus invented by König for testing the quality of musical strings.
- noun An instrument for producing luminous figures by the vibrations of sounding bodies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
device that shows animage representing theacoustical properties of amusical instrument etc.
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