loudspeaker

UK/laʊdˈspiːkə/US/ˈlaʊdspiːkɚ/

nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,600 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: loudspeakers

A loudspeaker is a device that turns an electrical signal into sound. A cheap loudspeaker.

It works by moving a cone back and forth, which pushes air, which is all sound ever is. A loudspeaker is the least improved part of most sound systems and matters the most.

Definitions of loudspeaker

1nounloudspeakerA device that turns an electrical signal into sound.B1+
“One loudspeaker in the hall had been dead for three years.”

loudspeaker is a device.

Where it comes from

From loud + speaker.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

loudspeaker in the wild

Most hi-fi speaker systems and sound reinforcement system speaker cabinets use a combination of multiple loudspeaker drivers, each catering to a different frequency band.
Audio crossover
In this example, a signal received by the microphone is amplified and passed out of the loudspeaker.
Audio feedback
The sound from the loudspeaker can then be received by the microphone again, amplified further, and then passed out through the loudspeaker again.
Audio feedback
A horn loudspeaker is a loudspeaker or loudspeaker element which uses an acoustic horn to increase the overall efficiency of the driving element(s).
Horn loudspeaker
The first practical loudspeakers, introduced around the turn of the 20th century, were horn speakers.
Horn loudspeaker

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