four-channel
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of four-channel
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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Wuorinen was 32 when he won the Pulitzer for “Time’s Encomium,” a four-channel work for synthesized sound that became the first electronic composition to earn the honor.
From Washington Times • Mar. 12, 2020
Playing behind us was a four-channel video installation titled “American Gothic 2017,” featuring footage that she’d collected in New York last Halloween.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 7, 2017
Wonderful to see is Beryl Korot's 1974 "Dachau," a probing four-channel video of a notorious killing factory turned into a queasy tourist site.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2016
They were chopped and channeled into standard screen sizes for television showings and shorn of the four-channel magnetic stereo soundtracks that originally gave them added depth and presence.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2012
Now they want to put four speakers and new amplifying equipment in your living room and introduce a new term into the vocabulary of the sound buff�quadraphonics, or four-channel sound.
From Time Magazine Archive
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