Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or for a four-channel sound system in which speakers are positioned at all four corners of the listening space, reproducing signals that are independent of each other.
Wiktionary
- adj. of a sound system Employing four independent channels or speakers.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to quadraphony
Etymologies
- quadri- + phonic (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I even remember standing in a music store in the Twin Cities in about 1970 listening to “Whole Lotta Love” from Led Zeppelin II [1] speed around me on the latest technological breakthrough, quadraphonic stereo.”
“I even remember standing in a music store in the Twin Cities in about 1970 listening to “Whole Lotta Love” from Led Zeppelin II speed around me on the latest technological breakthrough, quadraphonic stereo.”
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“The Xplore Wrangler certainly feels authentic on the highway, with quadraphonic tire roar blasting from the BFGs' deep treads and a serious lack of top speed, thanks to the vehicle's aerodynamics.”
“Dan Neil/The Wall Street Journal The Xplore Wrangler certainly feels authentic on the highway, with quadraphonic tire roar blasting from the BFGs' deep treads and a serious lack of top speed, thanks to the vehicle's aerodynamics.”
“The "knowns" -- the gifted Galt MacDermott, the ingenious British designer John Bury, the not yet knighted Peter Hall, couldn't have had better pedigrees for approaching a piece of such ambition: there was a space ship that sailed over the orchestra; trampolines cratered into the stage to bounce us like 'low gravity' might, and a massive rocket tail would blast us all off at the show's end in quadraphonic sound.”
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“A quadraphonic eight track tribute album to the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin recently fetched $152.”
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“I recall that at one time we were told we * needed* quadraphonic sound.”
“Obsessive audiophiles are a relic of the 70's, like AM receivers and quadraphonic sound.”
“In the 1970s, I bought a four-track quarter-inch recorder: it was sold as a quadraphonic machine, but it was capable of doing some of the same studio trickery that went into Sixties hits, albeit with a less-impressive signal-to-noise ratio, and I wielded a mighty splicing blade in those days.”
“Strike two – joined at the hip to an attempt to market a conceptually valid, but technically unfeasible, package of hardware and content: quadraphonic sound.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘quadraphonic’.
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phrontistery - q
from phrontistery.info
qanat, qasida, qat, qigong, qintar, qiviut, qoph, qua, quab, quackle, quacksalver, quad and 227 more...
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phono-, phon-, -phony
relating to sound
phonograph, phonics, phonology, telephony, phoneme, phone, telephone, phonautograph, phonetic, phonebook, phonography, phonolite and 107 more...
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agelast, aggiornamento, zaftig, wowserism, vox barbara, verbigeration, tchotchke, tautology, sycophant, spoonerism, solipsism, sobriquet and 288 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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InstantWordPower
sesquipedalian, optometrist, quadruped, biped, bimonthly, bifocal, bicuspid, bivalve, quadraphonic, quadruplet, quadruple, quadrilateral and 107 more...
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Sound & Acoustics
intonation, timbre, harmonic distortion, anechoic, surround-sound, amperage, binaural, circumaural, crossfader, reverberative, intermodulation, crosstalk and 22 more...
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The Hills are Alive
...with the Sound of Music.
rock, dance, jazz, blues, folk, filk, jungle, industrial, rockabilly, classical, baroque, techno and 47 more...
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argotechnica's Words
antiquarian, astrolabe, starmilk, hyacinth, mercurial, cyclic redundancy..., mingle, dandelion, concertina, aphasia, stereoscopy, lenticular and 24 more...
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