Loudspeaker
noun
A device that transforms electrical signals into sound, often used in radios, televisions, and public announcement systems.
The announcement was made over the loudspeaker in the train station.
Often appears as...
- public address loudspeaker
- wireless loudspeaker
noun
A specific type of loudspeaker also known as a woofer, designed to produce low frequency sounds in a sound system.
He installed an extra loudspeaker in his car for better bass.
Often appears as...
- subwoofer loudspeaker
- stereo loudspeaker
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noun
A device that transforms electrical signals into sound, often used in radios, televisions, and public announcement systems.
The announcement was made over the loudspeaker in the train station.
Often appears as...
- public address loudspeaker
- wireless loudspeaker
noun
A specific type of loudspeaker also known as a woofer, designed to produce low frequency sounds in a sound system.
He installed an extra loudspeaker in his car for better bass.
Often appears as...
- subwoofer loudspeaker
- stereo loudspeaker
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Usage Context
Usually denotes devices in public areas or electronic products for personal use. Not for individual headphones.
They used a loudspeaker to address the crowd.
Pro Tip 2/3Size Variations
Can vary in size dramatically, from small in smartphones to large for concerts.
The festival stage had giant loudspeakers for the music.
Pro Tip 3/3Implies Amplification
Implies sound is made louder for multiple or distant listeners, not just its source volume.
The guide used a portable loudspeaker in the tour.
Pro Tip 1/3Usage Context
Usually denotes devices in public areas or electronic products for personal use. Not for individual headphones.
They used a loudspeaker to address the crowd.
Pro Tip 2/3Size Variations
Can vary in size dramatically, from small in smartphones to large for concerts.
The festival stage had giant loudspeakers for the music.
Pro Tip 3/3Implies Amplification
Implies sound is made louder for multiple or distant listeners, not just its source volume.
The guide used a portable loudspeaker in the tour.
Pro Tip 1/3Usage Context
Usually denotes devices in public areas or electronic products for personal use. Not for individual headphones.
They used a loudspeaker to address the crowd.
Pro Tip 2/3Size Variations
Can vary in size dramatically, from small in smartphones to large for concerts.
The festival stage had giant loudspeakers for the music.
Pro Tip 3/3Implies Amplification
Implies sound is made louder for multiple or distant listeners, not just its source volume.
The guide used a portable loudspeaker in the tour.
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The single biggest...
avoid some of my instincts and maybe misperceptions I have from so many companies I've seen over the years. I wanted to know this because I've been starting businesses since I was 12 years old when I sold candy at the bus stop in junior high school, to high school, when I made solar energy devices, to college, when I made loudspeakers.
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We're hoping to break a world record with this. I would love to break a world record today, -I'm not gonna lie. -Okay. And where's the other half? Is this working in a different way? So this is an acoustic vortex. So we fire these loudspeakers in a sequence,
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Woody Norris: Hypersonic...
Now, think about where the world would be today if we had the light bulb, but you couldn't focus light; if when you turned one on it just went wherever it wanted to. That's the way loudspeakers pretty much are. You turn on the loudspeaker,
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Breaking the silence...
announcement and a public announcement was issued over the loudspeaker suddenly everyone and the entire train had gotten out but me I didn't understand what happened I waited a little bit then just to be safe I got out too but believe me
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Gabriela González: How...
Despite the fact that these are space-time waves and not sound waves, we like to put them into loudspeakers and listen to them. We call this "the music of the universe." I'd like you to listen to the first two notes of that music.
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How to turn your...
We needed to talk with people, not at people. We needed to work with the community influencers so people believed our message. We needed to be talking under the mango tree, not through loudspeakers. And we needed more beds.
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Ten Million Starlings...
they may look like extras from a sci-fi b-movie but these people really are wearing their work clothes they are stalling busters hired to clear the streets of this urban menace their weapon of choice is a loudspeaker
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Daniel Kish: How I use...
several floors away, several walls away. He said it was something like having x-ray vision. What do you picture that you're in right now? How do you picture this theater? Lots of loudspeakers, quite frankly.
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The surprising reason...
is helpful— up to a point. If he hears it too many times, the imitation degrades— and the source matters. If the song is played through a loudspeaker, he can’t pick it up as easily.
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Weird Bugs Looking for...
amplification the mail tree cricket like its beetle counterpart wants to advertise for a mate and the leaf becomes a loudspeaker his vibrating wings are made louder by the whole the
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The single biggest...
avoid some of my instincts and maybe misperceptions I have from so many companies I've seen over the years. I wanted to know this because I've been starting businesses since I was 12 years old when I sold candy at the bus stop in junior high school, to high school, when I made solar energy devices, to college, when I made loudspeakers.
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How To Levitate PIPE The...
We're hoping to break a world record with this. I would love to break a world record today, -I'm not gonna lie. -Okay. And where's the other half? Is this working in a different way? So this is an acoustic vortex. So we fire these loudspeakers in a sequence,
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Woody Norris: Hypersonic...
Now, think about where the world would be today if we had the light bulb, but you couldn't focus light; if when you turned one on it just went wherever it wanted to. That's the way loudspeakers pretty much are. You turn on the loudspeaker,
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Breaking the silence...
announcement and a public announcement was issued over the loudspeaker suddenly everyone and the entire train had gotten out but me I didn't understand what happened I waited a little bit then just to be safe I got out too but believe me
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Gabriela González: How...
Despite the fact that these are space-time waves and not sound waves, we like to put them into loudspeakers and listen to them. We call this "the music of the universe." I'd like you to listen to the first two notes of that music.
Video examples
How to turn your...
We needed to talk with people, not at people. We needed to work with the community influencers so people believed our message. We needed to be talking under the mango tree, not through loudspeakers. And we needed more beds.
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Ten Million Starlings...
they may look like extras from a sci-fi b-movie but these people really are wearing their work clothes they are stalling busters hired to clear the streets of this urban menace their weapon of choice is a loudspeaker
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Daniel Kish: How I use...
several floors away, several walls away. He said it was something like having x-ray vision. What do you picture that you're in right now? How do you picture this theater? Lots of loudspeakers, quite frankly.
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The surprising reason...
is helpful— up to a point. If he hears it too many times, the imitation degrades— and the source matters. If the song is played through a loudspeaker, he can’t pick it up as easily.
Video examples
Weird Bugs Looking for...
amplification the mail tree cricket like its beetle counterpart wants to advertise for a mate and the leaf becomes a loudspeaker his vibrating wings are made louder by the whole the
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Simon Sebag Montefiore
British Historian
I was driving across Georgia with a warlord and his bodyguards riding shotgun with their Kalashnikovs in a convoy of Mercedes and Land Rovers. The guy put on Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' on a cassette, which they played on loudspeakers as we raced across the mountains, and I remember thinking, 'This sure beats respectable life in England.
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Adam Hamilton
American Clergyman
We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in schools.' God never left the schools. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children 'a future with hope.
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Steve Finley
American Athlete
I loved Omar Vizquel. He tells some really long jokes, and he has his own way of telling them, but he can make every joke very funny. He would always come up with jokes on the loudspeaker on the bus.
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Florian Schneider
German Musician
I found that the flute was too limiting. Soon I bought a microphone, then loudspeakers, then an echo, then a synthesiser. Much later I threw the flute away; it was a sort of process.
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George Orwell
British Author
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
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David Tudor
American Musician
The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.
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Stuart Symington
American Businessman
Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
German Composer
Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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Raj Thackeray
Indian Politician
Keep your religion in your house. Shut off the loudspeakers Masjids. Our Aarti does not trouble, why should Namaaz harass others?
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David Tudor
American Musician
Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.
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Simon Sebag Montefiore
British Historian
I was driving across Georgia with a warlord and his bodyguards riding shotgun with their Kalashnikovs in a convoy of Mercedes and Land Rovers. The guy put on Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' on a cassette, which they played on loudspeakers as we raced across the mountains, and I remember thinking, 'This sure beats respectable life in England.
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Adam Hamilton
American Clergyman
We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in schools.' God never left the schools. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children 'a future with hope.
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Steve Finley
American Athlete
I loved Omar Vizquel. He tells some really long jokes, and he has his own way of telling them, but he can make every joke very funny. He would always come up with jokes on the loudspeaker on the bus.
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Florian Schneider
German Musician
I found that the flute was too limiting. Soon I bought a microphone, then loudspeakers, then an echo, then a synthesiser. Much later I threw the flute away; it was a sort of process.
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George Orwell
British Author
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
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David Tudor
American Musician
The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.
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Stuart Symington
American Businessman
Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
German Composer
Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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Raj Thackeray
Indian Politician
Keep your religion in your house. Shut off the loudspeakers Masjids. Our Aarti does not trouble, why should Namaaz harass others?
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David Tudor
American Musician
Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.
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