VOX

[ voks ]

noun

1. a device in certain types of telecommunications equipment, as telephone answering machines, that converts an incoming voice or sound signal into an electrical signal that turns on a transmitter or recorder that continues to operate as long as the incoming signal is maintained.

vox

/ vɒks /

noun

1. a voice or sound

Word History and Origins

Origin of VOX¹

Acronym from voice-operated keying, altered to conform to Latin vōx voice

Word History and Origins

Origin of VOX¹

Latin: voice

Example Sentences

He defined it in 2016 to Vox as meaning “rule by veto … the American political system has always made it very hard for the government to actually do things because it gives a lot of parts of the political system veto rights over what the system does.”

From Los Angeles Times

"Vance is a vocal pronatalist," says Rachel Cohen, policy correspondent at Vox.

From BBC

But the inclusion at the event of representatives of European far-right parties, like France's National Rally, Spain's Vox and the Sweden Democrats, had proven controversial.

From BBC

Early last year he met the Sweden Democrat leader who visited Jerusalem, and was a speaker at a Vox conference in Madrid.

From BBC

The symbolism is striking: On a recent Vox podcast, Ulbricht biographer Nick Bilton described Silk Road’s facilitation of Bitcoin-denominated Chinese fentanyl shipments in the early 2010s as a key step in the drug’s apocalyptic takeover of the U.S. opioid market.

From Slate