Contextualizebeta

loudspeaker

noun
/laʊdˈspiːkə/UK/ˈlaʊdspiːkɚ/US

Etymology

From loud + speaker.

  1. derived from *sprekô✻ — “speaker”
  2. derived from speca
  3. inherited from speker
  4. formed as loudspeaker — “loud + speaker”

Definitions

  1. An electromechanical transducer that converts an electrical signal into audible sound.

    • Unintelligible announcements on station loudspeakers are both irritating and confusing.

  2. Any such transducer that is loud, as opposed to quiet ones such as those found in…

    Any such transducer that is loud, as opposed to quiet ones such as those found in headphones.

  3. An encasing containing one or more loudspeaker devices and usually other electrical…

    An encasing containing one or more loudspeaker devices and usually other electrical equipment such as a driver.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at loudspeaker. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01loudspeaker02equipment03expedition04journey05seen06understood07speaker

A definitional loop anchored at loudspeaker. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at loudspeaker

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA