Microphone
Microphone noun - Device for converting sound waves into electrical energy.
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Speaker and microphone are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Speaker" instead a noun "Microphone".
Speaker
Both words in one sentence
- Toward the end of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the "sonic transducer" probably gets more laughs from those who recognize the phrase as meaning "speaker or microphone."
Source: Genius Bonus / Live-Action Films -
In the Japanese beta version, it looked much more like Audrey II, and even had a microphone and speaker next to it (which actually remained in the game in a Dummied Out phantom form).
Source: Man-Eating Plant - This occurs even on shows where the builders of the communications devices in question achieved faster-than-light space travel hundreds of years ago and who by all rights ought to have come up with a perfect-fidelity microphone/speaker system long ago.
Source: Radio Voice
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