Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hot microphone

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English

Syllables: hot mi-cro-phone
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A microphone that is activated (but not powered) by the sound of the user's voice, allowing it to pick up speech without having to be manually turned on, while still rejecting background noise unaccompanied by speech.

Example Sentences

"When the captain asked, "What's happening? What's happening?" at 0150:06, his words were not recorded by the hot microphone at the first officer's position; however, the hot microphone recorded the captain's subsequent remarks until it stopped recording cockpit conversation at 0150:25. (None of the relief first officer's comments during the accident sequence were recorded by the hot microphone. For additional information, see the section titled, "Audio Information Recorded by First Officer's Hot Microphone.")"

Inflected Forms

hot microphones (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

VOX

Questions

What does hot microphone mean?: A microphone that is activated (but not powered) by the sound of the user's voice, allowing it to pick up speech without having to be manually turned on, while still rejecting background noise unaccompanied by speech.

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