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chest voice

chest voice noun: 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.

Noun

chest voice

  1. 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.

Questions about chest voice

What does chest voice mean?
Chest voice means 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.
What part of speech is chest voice?
Chest voice is a noun.

Words near chest voice in the dictionary

  1. chest surgery
  2. chest tightness
  3. chest tube
  4. chest tubes
  5. chest up
  6. chest voice
  7. chest wall
  8. chest walls
  9. chest-beating
  10. chest-bump
  11. chest-bumped

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