cardioid microphone

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   a directional microphone with a cardioid pattern of sensitivity

   Synonymscardioid mike

   Broaderdirectional microphone

Questions about cardioid microphone

What does cardioid microphone mean?

cardioid microphone means "a directional microphone with a cardioid pattern of sensitivity".

What is another word for cardioid microphone?

Close synonyms include cardioid mike. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cardioid microphone a common word?

cardioid microphone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.