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loudspeaker

[ loud-spee-ker ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
Audio.
1. a device for transforming electric signals into audible sound, most frequently used to reproduce speech and music.
2. speaker ( def 4 ).

loudspeaker

/ ˌlaʊdˈspiːkə /

a device for converting audio-frequency signals into the equivalent sound waves by means of a vibrating conical diaphragm Sometimes shortened tospeaker Also calledreproducer

First recorded in 1880–85; loud + speaker

“We are Moroccans,” went out the cry over a portable loudspeaker.

“08:46 a.m. Flight 11 impacts tower one” comes over the loudspeaker.

On the recording, Tuff also announces to students over the loudspeaker that they should stay in their classrooms.

A few floors up, on Deck 9, Rian Tipton and her friends were trying to sleep through the loudspeaker announcements.

But for a full day, there was nothing but apologetic reassurances over the loudspeaker.

The loudspeaker voice was coming to the end of the prisoner list.

There was a clicking sound and the loudspeaker died with a sputter of static.

There was a voice blaring over the loudspeaker, shouting at us to stop talking, to walk, but we ignored it.

The orchestra swayed into a final soft chord, and immediately a voice spoke from a loudspeaker in the ceiling.

Now a car with a loudspeaker on top rolled into view—a completely armored car.

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