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loudspeaker - 3 dictionary results

loud⋅speak⋅er

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

Origin:
1880–85; loud + speaker

speak⋅er

[spee-ker]
–noun
1. a person who speaks.
2. a person who speaks formally before an audience; lecturer; orator.
3. (usually initial capital letter) the presiding officer of the U.S. House of Representatives, the British House of Commons, or other such legislative assembly.
4. Also called loudspeaker. an electroacoustic device, often housed in a cabinet, that is connected as a component in an audio system, its function being to make speech or music audible.
5. a book of selections for practice in declamation.
6. be or not be on speakers, British. speaking (defs. 9, 10).

Origin:
1275–1325; ME; see speak, -er 1


speak⋅er⋅ship, noun
loud·speak·er   (loud'spē'kər)   
n.  A device that converts electric signals to audible sound.
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