headphone
pronunciation
How to pronounce headphone in British English:
UK [ˈhɛdfəʊn]
How to pronounce headphone in American English:
US [ˈhɛdˌfoʊn]
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- Noun:
- electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear
Word Origin
- headphone (n.)
- 1887, from head (n.) + second element extracted from telephone (n.). Related: Headphones.
Example
- 1. How do you keep your headphone cords tidy ?
- 2. Remove some part of the headphone ......
- 3. It has a built in speaker at the bottom and a headphone jack .
- 4. We 've already discussed using an iphone headphone jack as a line-in for audio recording , but what can android do ?
- 5. It has a webcam , stereo speakers and a combined mic / headphone port so your 3.5 mm phone earbuds can be plugged right in without an adapter .