SOUND SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sound system mean? 

• SOUND SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun SOUND SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. a system of electronic equipment for recording or reproducing sound

  Familiarity information: SOUND SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUND SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A system of electronic equipment for recording or reproducing sound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

audio system; sound system

Hypernyms ("sound system" is a kind of...):

electronic equipment (equipment that involves the controlled conduction of electrons (especially in a gas or vacuum or semiconductor))

system (instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity)

Meronyms (parts of "sound system"):

radio-gramophone; radio-phonograph (electronic equipment consisting of a combination of a radio receiver and a record player)

phonograph; record player (machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically)

tape deck (electronic equipment for making or playing magnetic tapes (but without amplifiers or speakers); a component in an audio system)

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

recording system (audio system for recoding sound)

reproducer (an audio system that can reproduce and amplify signals to produce sound)

 Context examples 

It was very gravely and decorously ordered, and on a sound system; with an appeal, in everything, to the honour and good faith of the boys, and an avowed intention to rely on their possession of those qualities unless they proved themselves unworthy of it, which worked wonders.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)