loudspeaker
any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
Audio.
a device for transforming electric signals into audible sound, most frequently used to reproduce speech and music.
Origin of loudspeaker
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How to use loudspeaker in a sentence
With two hours to go, there is no action on the field, though some music began to play on the loudspeaker after hours of silence.
What it's like inside the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics | Ina Fried | July 23, 2021 | AxiosJBL started manufacturing loudspeakers in 1946, so by the time the company decided to get into portable Bluetooth speakers it had plenty of engineering knowledge to draw on.
JBL Charge 5 review: A rugged, portable Bluetooth speaker with battery to spare | Billy Cadden | June 15, 2021 | Popular-ScienceCollar’s minimalist sculptures emulate features of such structures, but also the loudspeakers found in contemporary churches and parts of the body, including spurts of blood.
In the galleries: Images focus on the future of the planet | Mark Jenkins | May 28, 2021 | Washington PostAs Captain Pullis prepared to take off for San Francisco, she came on the plane’s loudspeaker, introducing herself and telling the passengers that their flight would be an hour and 33 minutes and they’d be cruising at 33,000 feet.
Travel Is Coming Back, and Artificial Intelligence May Be Planning Your Next Flight | Alana Semuels/Seattle | May 25, 2021 | TimeAcross India, educators have attempted to reach out to students in all kinds of unusual and creative ways, including using radio programs and loudspeaker tutorials to teach children without Internet access.
Schools in India have been closed since March. The costs to children are mounting. | Parth M.N., Joanna Slater, Niha Masih | December 30, 2020 | Washington Post
“We are Moroccans,” went out the cry over a portable loudspeaker.
“08:46 a.m. Flight 11 impacts tower one” comes over the loudspeaker.
With the Fireman of Brooklyn’s Company 224 as They Observe the Fallen | Maurice Emerson Decaul | September 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOn the recording, Tuff also announces to students over the loudspeaker that they should stay in their classrooms.
In 911 Call, Atlanta School Bookkeeper Calms Shooter With ‘Love’ | Patricia Murphy | August 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTA few floors up, on Deck 9, Rian Tipton and her friends were trying to sleep through the loudspeaker announcements.
We Survived the Triumph: Passengers Describe Their Doomed Carnival Cruise | Winston Ross, Eliza Shapiro, Sam Register | February 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut for a full day, there was nothing but apologetic reassurances over the loudspeaker.
We Survived the Triumph: Passengers Describe Their Doomed Carnival Cruise | Winston Ross, Eliza Shapiro, Sam Register | February 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe loudspeaker voice was coming to the end of the prisoner list.
The Status Civilization | Robert SheckleyThere was a clicking sound and the loudspeaker died with a sputter of static.
Hunters Out of Space | Joseph Everidge KelleamThere was a voice blaring over the loudspeaker, shouting at us to stop talking, to walk, but we ignored it.
Little Brother | Cory DoctorowThe orchestra swayed into a final soft chord, and immediately a voice spoke from a loudspeaker in the ceiling.
The Star Lord | Boyd EllanbyNow a car with a loudspeaker on top rolled into view—a completely armored car.
Police Your Planet | Lester del Rey
British Dictionary definitions for loudspeaker
/ (ˌlaʊdˈspiːkə) /
a device for converting audio-frequency signals into the equivalent sound waves by means of a vibrating conical diaphragm: Sometimes shortened to: speaker Also called: reproducer
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