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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Informal Low fidelity.
- noun A style of rock music characterized by distortion or imperfections typical of low-fidelity reproduction.
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Examples
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At this rather low-fi event, hosted by the former New York Giants defensive end Michael Anthony Strahan, Blackberry was launching a few apps for its Playbook.
Things Got Ugly, and That Was the Point Marshall Heyman 2011
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"I thrive on story story story, and intentionally use low-fi gear to avoid tripping up the message," he explains.
David R. Kuhn: That Others May Live David R. Kuhn 2011
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That somebody like him was going to come do this show, which is often by design very slapdash and low-fi.
Ross Luippold: Diddy Makes His Live Comedy Debut Ross Luippold 2011
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Please excuse the low-fi quality of the images as they were snapped with an iPhone.
New Photos: The Other Guys, Untitled James L Brooks Comedy, Burlesque, Easy A and Takers | /Film 2010
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That somebody like him was going to come do this show, which is often by design very slapdash and low-fi.
Ross Luippold: Diddy Makes His Live Comedy Debut Ross Luippold 2011
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In this latest go-round, however, Apple added a video camera, FM radio, voice recorder, low-fi mono speaker, larger display (2.2 inches versus 2 inches), and even a pedometer.
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Turner-prize winning artist Martin Creed shares some of his brand of low-fi punk with his single Thinking/Not Thinking
Martin Creed - How I Wrote Thinking/Not Thinking - Video 2011
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The avatar customization is embarrassingly low-fi, there's no support for playing your own music from an SD card, and every so often you're mistreated to the grinning, spastic image of Bob Greene, pretending to congratulate you on your incredible accomplishments.
Pondering An Effort At Exercise Software SVGL 2009
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The premise of the film sounds like that of a particularly macabre Choose Your Own Adventure story -- an American Average Joe is trapped in a coffin somewhere in the Iraqi desert with nothing but a cell phone, a Zippo, and his cajones -- but with killer timing, buckets of low-fi ingenuity, and a stunning one-man show from Reynolds, Cortés is able to craft a riveting bonafide action movie.
Farihah Zaman: 2010 Fantastic Fest #2: Good Movies, Stupid Plots Farihah Zaman 2010
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That somebody like him was going to come do this show, which is often by design very slapdash and low-fi.
Ross Luippold: Diddy Makes His Live Comedy Debut Ross Luippold 2011
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