sound system

See also: Soundsystem

English

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.

electronic system that produces sound

Danish: lydsystem n
Esperanto: sonaparato
German: Soundsystem n
Greek: ηχοσύστημα (el) n (ichosýstima)
Hungarian: hangosítás (hu), hangtechnika (hu), hangosító berendezés, erősítés (hu), hangerősítés, hangberendezés, hifiberendezés, hangsugárzó rendszer, hangosítástechnikai rendszer
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lydanlegg n

Nynorsk: lydanlegg n

the set of speech sounds that make up a language; a phonology

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