headphone

American

[hed-fohn] / ˈhɛdˌfoʊn /

noun

Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
any set of earphones.

Etymology

Origin of headphone

First recorded in 1910–15; head + -phone

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To solve the problem, they created a square-shaped device that could plug into a smartphone’s headphone jack and read credit cards.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

Koss Corp. a headphone manufacturer, rose more than 14% and BlackBerry, the one time dominant smartphone maker, climbed more than 4%.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024

One of the studies evaluated by researchers found average headphone noise levels in four shooting games to be between 88.5 and 91.2dB.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2024

Either through voice commands or a smartphone app, headphone wearers can select which sounds they want to include from 20 classes, such as sirens, baby cries, speech, vacuum cleaners and bird chirps.

From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023

In the headphone study, the editorial had no impact on those whose heads were still.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

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