Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A loudspeaker designed to reproduce bass frequencies.
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- noun An electronic
speaker that produces low-frequency sound.
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- noun a loudspeaker that reproduces lower audio frequency sounds
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The sub-woofer is an inverted glass dome, and a fresnel lens from a rail-car.
Boing Boing: August 28, 2005 - September 3, 2005 Archives 2005
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"In Mundania, a speaker system-that is, something that makes sounds-has a big cone called a woofer, and a small cone called a tweeter, and a middle cone called a midrange.
Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996
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"In Mundania, a speaker system-that is, something that makes sounds-has a big cone called a woofer, and a small cone called a tweeter, and a middle cone called a midrange.
Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996
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A woofer is the electro dynamic driver which uses a cone, surrounded by a magnetic field, and a voice coil to drive.
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As near as I can tell from this, the the satellites are each 4-ohm, 4w speakers and the woofer is a 4-ohm, 14w speaker (Not completely sure - tell me if i'm wrong).
MAKE Magazine 2009
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I would even go as far as say that if you got rid of the "woofer" at the bottom of the unit, and opted for a larger cell unit into the chassis structure, you would make a lot more dent in the mobility market, but again, this probably isn't what it's marketed for, nor what people will be buying it for.
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Go for a sub woofer and make sure you got the speakers arranged in the acoustically right fashion so that the sound is not being disturbed.
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If it makes you feel any better, I recently got rid of my sub-woofer/leg rest and i keep going to put my feet up.
Mac-on-a-Shelf: A Compact Workspace | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Zero-to-60 speed is set to 3.4 seconds--which is even more impressive considering the leather seats, 12-inch woofer, DVD/navigation system and rise-away doors weighing it down.
Hottest Cars At The Detroit Auto Show Hannah Elliott 2011
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Each speaker has a 3-way system consisted of a woofer, a full-range driver and a tweeter.
Prolagus commented on the word woofer
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August 29, 2009