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1. A-side in A, n. View full entry 1937
...(the music recorded on) the more important side of a single (single3n). Cf. B-sideB4b(f)....
2. AVI in A, n. View full entry 1991
...Audio Video Interleave (or Interleaved), a file format for the storage of digital video and audio sequences....
3. acetate, n. View full entry 1940
...Sound Recording. A disc made of glass, aluminium, or other material, coated with cellulose nitrate (formerly cellulose acetate), on which a recording is made by a cutting stylus (as opposed to...
4. acoustic, adj. and n. View full entry 1932
...Of a gramophone or (in later use) a musical instrument: producing sound by mechanical rather than electrical means; not using inbuilt electrical amplification. Hence: of, characterized by, or designating music produced in...
5. acoustically, adv. View full entry 1927
...By means of an acoustic recording process. Cf. acoustic5a. Now chiefly hist....
6. action replay in action, n. View full entry 1970
...a (slow motion) playback of an incident in a televised sporting event, esp. just after it has occurred; also in extended use....
7. album, n.2 View full entry 1952
...A collection of recordings issued as a single item on record, cassette, CD, etc....
8. ambience, n. View full entry 1961
...Audio. The acoustic quality of a particular environment, as reproduced in a recording; spec. a sense of some specific or individual atmosphere, esp. an impression of live performance, created...
9. ambient, adj. and n. View full entry 1959
...Audio. Designating atmospheric sound occurring naturally or at random in a particular environment at a particular time, esp. (unwanted) background noise picked up by a microphone. Usu. in ambient noise...
10. ambiophony, n. View full entry 1959
...Sound reproduction in which a three-dimensional effect is produced by feeding signals from two sources to four or more speakers with slight time differences....
11. ambisonic, n. and adj. View full entry 1973
...A system of (usu. high-fidelity) sound reproduction which uses two or more channels and four or more speakers in such a way that the effect of indirect sound can be reproduced in...
12. analogue, n. and adj. View full entry 1979
...Of a sound recording or video: represented by an analogously varying physical quantity; (of a recording medium) storing audio or video in such a form....
13. assembly, n. View full entry 1949
...The assembling of parts of a film or sound recording. Also attrib....
14. audio, n. View full entry 1934
...Sound, esp. recorded or transmitted sound; a signal or signals representing this; sound recording and reproduction....
15. audio-active in audio-, comb. form View full entry 1963
...of or pertaining to interactive language learning, esp. in a language laboratory, in which the student is able to listen and respond to course material through a headset linked to a tape...
16. audio-cassette in audio-, comb. form View full entry 1971
...a cassette of audiotape....
17. audio disc in audio-, comb. form View full entry 1970
...a record or disc, esp. a compact disc, on which a sound recording has been made....
18. audiophile in audio-, comb. form View full entry 1951
...a devotee of high-fidelity reproduction of sound (chiefly U.S.)....
19. audio typist in audio-, comb. form View full entry 1959
...one who types directly from material previously recorded (as on magnetic tape)....
20. audiobook in audio-, comb. form View full entry 1959
...an audio recording of a reading of a book (typically a novel), produced commercially; cf. talking booktalking....
