单词 | binaural |
释义 | binauraladj. 1. Of or pertaining to one's two ears; used with both ears, as the binaural stethoscope. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > hearing organ > [adjective] otic1657 aural1845 binaural1861 monaural1888 1861 Brit. & For. Med.-Chirurg. Rev. XXVIII. 147 Bin-aural stethoscopes,..meant to intensify the sound..by conveying it simultaneously to both the ears of the auscultator. 1878 Engineering XXIV. 151/3 Mr. S. P. Thompson..read his paper ‘On Binaural Audition’. 1881 J. Le Conte Sight 265 A kind of binaural audition, by means of which we judge imperfectly of direction of sound. 1881 Nature 29 Dec. 208/2 A Binaural Audition and the Phenautograph. 2. Applied to a system of sound reproduction that uses two separated microphones and two transmission channels to achieve a stereophonic effect; esp. one in which the sound is delivered to each ear separately by earphones. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [adjective] > recorded by specific system taped1892 phonographed1897 acoustic1926 acoustical1926 stereophonic1927 monaural1931 multitracked1931 binaural1933 multitrack1935 tape-recorded1951 telediphoned1952 stereo1954 multi-taped1955 monophonic1958 pretaped1958 mono1960 audiotaped1962 multichannel1962 quarter-track1962 Dolby1966 quadraphonic1968 tetraphonic1969 periphonic1970 quad1970 quadrasonic1970 Dolbyized1971 QS1972 Dolbyed1973 premix1977 quadro1977 1933 Electronics July 196/2 Ready-made equipment for an experiment with binaural transmission. 1952 N.Y. Times 26 Oct. ii. 11/6 In binaural transmission, the sound is broadcast on both the standard radio wave length and on FM. In the home two receivers are necessary to achieve the effect of ‘three dimensional’ sound. 1958 N.Z. Listener 10 Oct. 21/3 In a binaural recording of an orchestral performance, two microphones would be placed some distance apart among the players and the output from each microphone recorded separately. Both sound tracks would then go onto a single tape or onto a single record. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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