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binaural, a.|bɪˈnɔːrəl|
[f. bin- (or L. bīnī two by two) + aural, f. L. auris ear.]
1. Of or pertaining to one's two ears; used with both ears, as the binaural stethoscope.
1861[see stethoscope n.]. 1878Engineering XXIV. 151/3 Mr. S. P. Thompson..read his paper ‘On Binaural Audition’. 1881Le Conte Light 265 A kind of binaural audition, by means of which we judge imperfectly of direction of sound. 1881Nature XXV. 208.
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.
1933Electronics July 196/2 Ready-made equipment for an experiment with binaural transmission. 1952N.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. 1958N.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. |