chest voice

English

Noun

chest voice

(phonology, music) A kind of voice of a medium or low pitch and a sonorous quality ascribed to resonance in the chest, or thorax; voice of the thick register. It is produced by vibration of the vocal cords through their entire width and thickness, and with convex surfaces presented to each other.
Coordinate term: head voice

Translations

voice of thick register

Dutch: borststem (nl) f
Finnish: rintaääni
French: voix de poitrine f
German: Bruststimme (de) f
Italian: voce di petto f
Polish: rejestr piersiowy m
Spanish: voz de pecho f
Turkish: göğüs sesi

Anagrams

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