Loudspeaker

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  loudspeaker \loud"speak*er\ n.
     A device which converts electrical signals into sounds loud
     enough to be heard at a distance, usually outdoors; it is
     used to amplify or transmit over a distance speech from a
     person, who is typically speaking into a microphone.
     Sometimes it is used to play recorded speech or music.


  
     Syn: speaker, speaker unit, loudspeaker system, speaker
          system.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  loudspeaker
       n : electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals
           into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance [syn: {speaker},
            {speaker unit}, {loudspeaker system}, {speaker system}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "loudspeaker":
     acoustical network, capacitor speaker, coaxial speaker, cone,
     crossover network, diaphragm, dynamic speaker, earphone,
     electrodynamic speaker, electromagnetic speaker,
     electrostatic speaker, excited-field speaker,
     full-fidelity speaker, headphone, headset, high-fidelity speaker,
     high-frequency speaker, horn, low-frequency speaker,
     midrange speaker, monorange speaker, moving-coil speaker,
     permanent magnet speaker, speaker, speaker system, speaker unit,
     triaxial speaker, tweeter, voice coil, woofer