condenser microphone

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   microphone consisting of a capacitor with one plate fixed and the other forming the diaphragm moved by sound waves

   Synonymscapacitor microphonecondenser mikecapacitor mike

   Broadermicrophone

Questions about condenser microphone

What does condenser microphone mean?

condenser microphone means "microphone consisting of a capacitor with one plate fixed and the other forming the diaphragm moved by sound waves".

What is another word for condenser microphone?

Close synonyms include capacitor microphone, condenser mike, capacitor 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 condenser microphone a common word?

condenser 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.