1. A composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') 同义词： Affricate consonant affricative

2. Afflictings; afflictions; affluencies; affluential; afforcement; afforesting; affranchise; affricating; affrication; affricative; affrightens; affrightful; affrighting; affrontings; aficionadas; aficionados; afrormosias; afterbirths; afterbodies; afterbrains; afterburner; aftereffect; aftereyeing; aftergrowth; afterguards; afterimages; aftermarket; afterpieces; aftershafts; aftershaves; aftershocks

3. The output of a noise canceling first or second order electret gradient microphone in a very high noise environment has background noise attenuated and certain phonemes shaped to improve intelligibility by means of a slow action automatic gain control circuit (22) which matches dynamic range of the microphone (10) with dynamic range of the following communication channel, and a fast action automatic gain control circuit (24) in parallel with the first circuit, that reshapes puff noise into plosive, fricative and affricative speech component signals that produced the puff noise.