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AUDIO SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does audio system mean? 

AUDIO SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun AUDIO SYSTEM has 1 sense:

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

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


 Dictionary entry details 


AUDIO 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 ("audio 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 "audio 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 "audio system"):

recording system (audio system for recoding sound)

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


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