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Etymology 1

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From voice +‎ -ing.

Verb

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voicing

  1. present participle and gerund of voice

Etymology 2

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From voice +‎ -ing.

Noun

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voicing (plural voicings)

  1. (music) The final regulation of the pitch and tone of any sound-producing entity, especially of an organ or similar musical instrument.
  2. (music) A particular arrangement of notes to form a chord.
  3. (phonetics) The articulatory process in which the vocal cords vibrate.
  4. (phonetics, phonology) A classification of speech sounds that tend to be associated with vocal cord vibration.
  5. (phonology) A phonological process that turns a voiceless sound into a voiced one.
    Synonym: sonorization
    Antonyms: devoicing, surdization
  6. A sound made by the voice; vocalization.
    • 1900, Valentine Brown, “The Fisherman's Last Drift”, in Poems:
      Shrill voicings of seagulls
    • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 250:
      Pete dressed Eddie's high-pitched voicings in the stick-sweet strings of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.
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