sound system
See also: Soundsystem
English
Alternative forms
- soundsystem (chiefly Jamaican sense)
Noun
sound system (plural sound systems)
- An electronic system used to reproduce sound.
- The set of speech sounds that make up a language; a phonology.
- 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 277:
- One young Tamil teacher had assimilated the sound-system of English so thoroughly to that of his mother-tongue that none of the Chinese and Malay children understood him.
- (Jamaica) A mobile platform playing selected recorded music, set up as a social event, often with an entrance fee.
Translations
electronic system that produces sound
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the set of speech sounds that make up a language; a phonology
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