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View synonyms for plosive

plosive

[ ploh-siv ]

adjective

  1. (of a stop consonant or occlusive) characterized by release in a plosion; explosive.


noun

  1. Also called explosive. a plosive speech sound.

plosive

/ ˈpləʊsɪv /

adjective

  1. articulated with or accompanied by plosion


noun

  1. a plosive consonant; stop

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Word History and Origins

Origin of plosive1

First recorded in 1895–1900; shortened form of explosive

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Word History and Origins

Origin of plosive1

C20: from French, from explosif explosive

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Example Sentences

Disappointingly, the microphone’s built-in pop filter did very little to block plosives from traveling from my mouth to the microphone capsule.

The M70 PRO X includes a snug companion shockmount to which it attaches using a single screw mechanism, as well as an optional clip-on pop filter to block plosives in close-talk applications.

An internal pop-filter helps cut down on those plosives—the hard P’s and B’s that make your audience’s speakers shake—while the company’s proprietary Clipguard technology allows you to rant and rave as loudly as you’d like without the mic distorting.

An internal pop-filter, electromagnetic shielding, and shock-mount technology eliminate unwanted noises from light vibrations and mic contact, electronic interference, and plosive breath sounds.

The question of navigation solved, the two next devoted themselves to perfecting the "X-plosive bullet," as Seaton called it.

We might mount a machine-gun in each quadrant, shooting X-plosive bullets, through pressure gaskets in the walls.

Luckily, the enemy knows nothing of the object-compass or the X-plosive, and we must keep them in ignorance.

From its rarity I infer that the Plosive stock has not multiplied lavishly on the earth.

They found that the X-plosive came fully up to expectations.

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