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An instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeble sounds. It produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodie…

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  1. n. An instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeble sounds. It produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations.
  2. n. device for converting sound waves into electrical energy
  3. An instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeble sounds. It produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations.
  4. An instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeblesounds. It produces its effects by the changes of intensity in anelectric current, occasioned by the variations in the contactresistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors,under the action of acoustic vibrations.
  5. n:100 n. device for converting sound waves into electrical energy