stereo

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a sound system that records or reproduces audio through two or more separate channels

   He connected the turntable to the stereo in the living room.

2. 2
   adj

   recorded or reproduced through separate channels to create a sense of spatial direction

   The engineer mixed the concert recording in stereo sound.

3. 3
   noun

   dated: a stereotype printing plate or image made from one

   The compositor placed an advertisement stereo on the newspaper's back page.

Common collocations

• stereo system Noun + noun

Shortened from stereotype, stereoscope, or stereophonic, all built on Greek stereos, 'solid.' The printing abbreviation is older; the familiar sound-system sense spread in the twentieth century.

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