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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Of sound, music, etc, recorded in stereo.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Of a pair of images: one depicting the view as would be seen from one eye and the other from the other eye, so that when viewed appropriately, they combine to give an impression of three dimensions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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name
A solar observation mission, consisting of two identical spacecraft, that will provide stereoscopic imaging of the Sun.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A system of recording or reproducing sound that uses two or more channels, each playing a portion of the original sound at different locations in order to simulate the separation of sources along at least one spatial dimension.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any object or device equipped with audio components that reproduces sound in stereo, such as a stereo console in the home.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, dated, uncountable
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noun
A stereotype.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, countable, uncountable
Topics: media, printing, publishing
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noun
A genre of Western-style pop and rock music.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Myanmar, countable, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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verb
To create a stereophotographic image of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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adjective satellite
designating sound transmission from two sources through two channels
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: stereophonic, two-channel
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noun
reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: stereophony, stereo system, stereophonic system
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: reproducer
Narrower terms: ghetto blaster, boom box, iPod, quadraphony, quadraphonic system, quadriphonic system, Walkman
noun
two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: stereoscopic picture, stereoscopic photograph
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: photograph, photo, exposure, picture, pic
Narrower terms: anaglyph
History
A shortened form of stereotype, stereoscope or stereophonic, all originally derived, via stereo-, from Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”).
From "Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory".
Across languages
51 source translations are retained for this English entry.
