(of valves or other electronic components) unusually sensitive to incident sound or mechanical shock
microphonic in American English
(ˌmaikrəˈfɑnɪk)
adjective
1.
of, pertaining to, or in the nature of a microphone
2. Electronics
tending to or capable of exhibiting microphonism
Word origin
[1840–50; microphone + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1840–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: colloid, creationism, flan, organizer, warmup-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)
Examples of 'microphonic' in a sentence
microphonic
They may also feature microphonic cable that detects both sounds and vibrations from walking.