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.

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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