synthesizer
An electronic musical instrument that creates its sounds with electronics and generally is played via a keyboard.
Other meanings
An electronic instrument consisting of a module, or a set of modules, that creates its sounds with electronics and does not have any keyboard.
An electronic circuit that generates an electronic signal oscillation with accurate timing from a reference oscillator.
A kind of
- electronic instrument
- keyboard instrument
Related words
- biosynthesizer
- radiosynthesizer
- synthesist
- voice synthesizer
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “synthesizer” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.