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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 1926
...Sound, esp. when recorded, reproduced, or transmitted; electrical signals representing sound. Also: sound recording and reproduction; equipment concerned with this....
15. audiobook in audio, adj. View full entry 1942
...an audio recording of a reading of a book, typically produced for commercial purposes; cf. talking booktalking....
16. audio cassette in audio, adj. View full entry 1971
...a cassette of audiotape....
17. audio CD in audio, adj. View full entry 1984
...a compact disc on which a sound recording has been made....
18. audio disc in audio, adj. View full entry 1944
...a record or disc (now esp. a compact disc) on which a sound recording has been made....
19. audio file in audio, adj. View full entry 1956
...a box or similar container for holding and organizing sound recordings in any of various media;Computing a file containing audio data....
20. audio recording in audio, adj. View full entry 1928
...the action of making a sound recording; (also) a recording of sound; freq. attrib....
