trinaural
trinaural adjective: having a third audio channel in addition to the binaural or stereo channels.
Adjective
trinaural (not comparable)
- Having a third audio channel in addition to the binaural or stereo channels.
- The Hamilton Trinaural Sound System. Remember the night we dreamed that up? Three cartridges, needles, amplifiers, speakers. Mounted in three rooms. A man in each room, listening to each rig.1957, Philip K. Dick, Eye in the Sky
- However, I was informed that some current stereo releases are "trinaural" — three-channel rather than two — and I'd like some information about this. Are these actually three-channel stereo tapes?1957, High Fidelity, volume 7, numbers 1-6, page 8
Origin of trinaural
From tri- + -n- + aural.
Words that rhyme with trinaural
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- choral
- circhoral
- circumoral
- corollifloral
- discifloral
- endaural
- endoral
- exosporal
- extrafloral
- extraoral
- fecal-oral
- goral
- horal
- hyperoral
- infraoral
- juxtaoral
- labiatifloral
- loral
- mayoral
- microfloral
- naso-oral
- nasoral
- nonoral
- paroral
- perioral
- peroral
- pharyngo-oral
- poral
- post-oral
- postoral
- pre-oral
- restoral
- roral
- soral
- sporal
- suboral
- supraoral
- thalamifloral
- thesaural
- transoral
- vicar-choral
Questions about trinaural
- What does trinaural mean?
- Trinaural means having a third audio channel in addition to the binaural or stereo channels.
- What part of speech is trinaural?
- Trinaural is an adjective.
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