contact mike

1. 1.

   a microphone designed to be used in contact with a source of sound (or with a resonating surface)

   Synonymscontact microphone

   Broadermicrophone

   Narrowerspike microphone

Questions about contact mike

What does contact mike mean?

contact mike means "a microphone designed to be used in contact with a source of sound (or with a resonating surface)".

What is another word for contact mike?

Close synonyms include contact microphone. 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 contact mike a common word?

contact mike 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.