subwoofer

[ suhb-woof-er ]

/ ˈsʌbˌwʊf ər /

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noun

a loudspeaker component designed to reproduce only extremely low bass frequencies, generally below 125 Hz.

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Origin of subwoofer

sub- + woofer

Words nearby subwoofer

subvocal, subvocal speech, sub voce, subvolution, subway, subwoofer, sub-zero, subzone, suc, succah, succedaneum

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How to use subwoofer in a sentence

With that in mind, some offer an additional subwoofer for more powerful bass.
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The subwoofer also did its job, pumping out decidedly more rumble during on-screen explosions and anything else with lots of low-end.
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Bookshelf speaker users can instead add a subwoofer to their system.
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With a subwoofer, you can crank the bass higher without distortion to experience the full power and presence of music, movies, and games that the artists originally intended.
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In more complex multi-speaker set-ups, subwoofers play the sounds at the lowest end of the audio spectrum.
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British Dictionary definitions for subwoofer

subwoofer

/ (ˈsʌbˌwuːfə) /

noun

a loudspeaker for reproducing very low frequencies only

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