directional microphone

1. 1.

   a microphone that is designed to receive sound from a particular direction

   Synonymsdirectional mike

   Broadermicrophone

   Narrowercardioid microphonegun microphone

Questions about directional microphone

What does directional microphone mean?

directional microphone means "a microphone that is designed to receive sound from a particular direction".

What is another word for directional microphone?

Close synonyms include directional 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 directional microphone a common word?

directional 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.