MIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mic mean? 

• MIC (noun)
  The noun MIC has 1 sense:

1. device for converting sound waves into electrical energy

  Familiarity information: MIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Device for converting sound waves into electrical energy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

mic; microphone; mike

Hypernyms ("mic" is a kind of...):

electro-acoustic transducer (a transducer that converts electrical to acoustic energy or vice versa)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mic"):

bug (a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly)

capacitor microphone; capacitor mike; condenser microphone; condenser mike (microphone consisting of a capacitor with one plate fixed and the other forming the diaphragm moved by sound waves)

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

crystal microphone; crystal mike (a microphone in which sound waves vibrate a piezoelectric crystal that generates a varying voltage)

directional microphone; directional mike (a microphone that is designed to receive sound from a particular direction)

 Context examples 

But the conditions of her are in no way anæmic.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Do you imagine that this anæmic youth was capable of so frightful an assault?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She has lost that anæmic look which she had.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

If she were in any way anæmic I could understand it, but she is not.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I could easily see that she is somewhat bloodless, but I could not see the usual anæmic signs, and by a chance I was actually able to test the quality of her blood, for in opening a window which was stiff a cord gave way, and she cut her hand slightly with broken glass.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)