Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A heart-shaped plane curve, the locus of a fixed point on a circle that rolls on the circumference of another circle with the same radius.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A curve which may be considered as the path of a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls on another circle of equal size.
- Resembling or having the characters of the Cardiidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Math.) An algebraic curve, so called from its resemblance to a heart.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geometry An
epicycloid with exactly onecusp ; theplane curve withpolar equation - having a shape supposedlyheart-shaped - adjective Having this characteristic shape
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an epicycloid in which the rolling circle equals the fixed circle
Etymologies
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Examples
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Do not use a omnidirectional mic or something like that, look up "cardioid" and make sure that's the type of mic you are using!
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† For my fellow audio engineering geeks out there, my brother held an Audio Technica Dual Reference cardioid mic directly at the sound hole on an X axis.
Guitar Fridays: 1921 Martin 00-28 Michael Alan Nelson 2009
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Tried the directional cardioid and the omnidirectional capsule settings, went with the omnidirectional.
[film] Ask the Dust badger 2006
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A word of caution that it is quite sensitive and will pick up a lot of ambient noise, even using the cardioid capsule.
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Severing the cardioid arteries releases the pressure and drains blood from the brain.
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The image expanded; they were diving into the cleft between the main cardioid and its tangent circle.
The Ghost from the Grand Banks Clarke, Arthur C. 1990
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The image expanded; they were diving into the cleft between the main cardioid and its tangent circle.
The Ghost from the Grand Banks Clarke, Arthur C. 1990
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It has three capsules, with settings for stereo, cardioid, omnidirectional, and bidirectional recording; a built-in headphone amplifier for latency-free monitoring; and dials to control gain and headphone volume.
Boing Boing Rob Beschizza 2011
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I was so fascinated by the shape and mathematical description of a simple curve (cardioid or cissoid per - haps) that I had stumbled across in my reading that again I could not rest until I had explored in depth as many curves as I could
Recently Uploaded Slideshows sahmozac 2010
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The Electro-Voice N/DYM® N/D267AS is a dynamic cardioid vocal microphone that offers clear, consistent sound without low-end distortion.
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