Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to or obtained by means of the microphone; serving to intensify small or weak sounds; microcoustic. Also
microphonous . - Of an intensity so small as to be audible only by the aid of the microphone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a microphone; serving to intensify weak sounds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to
microphonics .
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Examples
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They can track an interloper's movements, using such sensing systems as motion detectors, vibration detectors and microphonic cable disturbance.
Antiterror, Inc. 2007
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I'd guess that the thing wouldn't go loud/bassy enough to get much string feedback - so as long as the pickup isn't microphonic, it should be fine.
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And he knew, too, that such preserved, living brains could be made to think and remember; that they could be communicated with by microphonic and loudspeaker electrical connections to their hearing and speech nervecenters.
Hell Wings Over Manhattan Adams, Stephen 2004
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That which I had thought to be distilled silence, was microphonic Babel — an intimate commingling of analogous noises varying in quality and intensity.
My Tropic Isle 2003
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Mike's muttering; the clipped, staccato conversation of the power crew; the noises of the tools; the deep throb of the ship itself; the underlying oddness of the engine vibrations -- all these were fed into his microphonic ears.
Unwise Child Randall Garrett 1957
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'You are debating whether or not to refuse,' said the microphonic voice.
The Long Way Home Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1955
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Telephonic currents -- that is, currents induced in the secondary wire of an induction coil due to the variation of microphonic currents in the primary wire -- are not alternating currents.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Various
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The microphonic currents are intermittent or pulsatory, and always flow in the same direction.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Various
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The sound may be aptly compared to the steady breathing of a child, and there is a striking resemblance between it and the microphonic sounds of gases diffusing through a porous septum as heard by Mr. Chandler Roberts.
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And Soames knew with certainty that she'd been receiving a message from Fran, in the teeth of merciless watching and probably microphonic eavesdropping on every word.
Long Ago, Far Away Murray Leinster 1935
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