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time-stretching

time-stretching is the alternative form of time stretching.

time-stretching is the present participle and gerund of time-stretch.

Meaning of time stretching

Noun

time stretching

  1. A type of slow motion editing achieved during post-production by inserting new frames in between frames that have actually been photographed.
  2. (sound, sound engineering) The changing of the speed of audio without changing its pitch.

Meaning of time-stretch

Verb

time-stretch (third-person singular simple present time-stretches, present participle time-stretching, simple past and past participle time-stretched)

  1. (transitive) To change the speed or duration of (an audio signal) without affecting its pitch.

Questions about time-stretching

What is time-stretching the alternative form of?
Time-stretching is the alternative form of time stretching.

Words near time-stretching in the dictionary

  1. time-stamping
  2. time-stamps
  3. time-stretch
  4. time-stretched
  5. time-stretches
  6. time-stretching
  7. time-suck
  8. time-sucks
  9. time-switch
  10. time-switched
  11. time-switches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: time-stretching (page history and authors); time stretching (page history and authors); time-stretch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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