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Meaning of "optical sound" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OPTICAL SOUND

optical sound play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OPTICAL SOUND

noun
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verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Optical sound is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OPTICAL SOUND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

optical sound

Optical sound

Optical sound is a means of storing sound recordings on transparent film. The technology was first developed in the 1920s as a sound-on-film format for motion pictures, eventually superseding all of other sound film technologies until the advent of digital sound would become the standard in cinema projection booths. Optical sound has also been used for multitrack recording and for creating effects in some musical synthesizers.

Definition of optical sound in the English dictionary

The definition of optical sound in the dictionary is sound recorded in the form of a photographic image on cinematograph films.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OPTICAL SOUND

optical character recognition
optical computer
optical crown
optical density
optical disc
optical disk
optical double star
optical fibre
optical flint
optical glass
optical illusion
optical isomer
optical isomerism
optical mark reading
optical mouse
optical pyrometer
optical rotation
optical scanner
optical scanning
optically

WORDS THAT END LIKE OPTICAL SOUND

around
background
bound
found
ground
infrasound
into the ground
missound
re-sound
resound
round
sound
speech sound
stereo sound
supersound
surround sound
to the ground
ultrasound
unsound
vowel sound

Synonyms and antonyms of optical sound in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «optical sound» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OPTICAL SOUND

Find out the translation of optical sound to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of optical sound from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «optical sound» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

光学声
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sonido óptico
570 millions of speakers

English

optical sound
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ऑप्टिकल ध्वनि
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الصوت البصري
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

оптический звук
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

som ótico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অপটিক্যাল শব্দ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bruit optique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bunyi optikal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lichtton
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

光学音響
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

광학 사운드
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Swara optik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

âm thanh quang học
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒளியியல் ஒலி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ऑप्टिकल आवाज
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Optik ses
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

audio ottica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dźwięk optyczny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

оптичний звук
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sunet optic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οπτικό ήχο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

optiese klank
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

optisk ljud
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

optisk lyd
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of optical sound

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OPTICAL SOUND»

The term «optical sound» is normally little used and occupies the 121.472 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OPTICAL SOUND» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «optical sound» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «optical sound» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about optical sound

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OPTICAL SOUND»

Discover the use of optical sound in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to optical sound and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the ...
In 16mm, optical tracks are mono (one channel of sound), and 16mm optical sound is relatively poor quality. The frequency response only runs up to 5500- 7000 Hz. The optical sound track itself is capable of greater range, but few projectors ...
Steven Ascher, Edward Pincus, 2007
2
Sound-on-film: Interviews with Creators of Film Sound
They take this optical sound negative and bring it to the lab, where it's married to picture, and then they run off all their prints right from the negative. What are some of the technical problems that confront the Dolby engineer during the mixing ...
Vincent LoBrutto, 1994
3
Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology
However, the technical deficiencies of early magnetic recording technology gave ample room for optical sound recording to become the established method. Even Valdemar Poulsen turned to optical sound recording by the 1920s. In the mid-1 ...
David Morton, 2006
4
Cinematography: Third Edition
... days of sound cinema; one possible origin is that immigrant German technicians spoke of shooting scenes without recording the sound as being recorded “mit out sound.” Another explanation is that it means “minus optical sound,” since ...
Kris Malkiewicz, M. David Mullen, 2009
5
Sound Theory, Sound Practice
As a result, whatever improvements in sound quality that magnetic recording and re-recording introduced were lost when the magnetic track was finally converted to optical sound for release prints, though magnetic recording and mixing did ...
Rick Altman, 1992
6
Moving Images: Making Movies, Understanding Media
By the time the Vitaphone was making headlines with the success of The Jazz Singer, viable systems of sound-on-film, or optical sound, had existed for almost ten years. Optical sound is a system of reproducing sound visually. With optical ...
Carl Casinghino, 2010
7
Sound Person's Guide to Video
Concurrent with the development of disc recording, a number of companies and individuals were hard at work on optical sound. In particular, Theodore Case of General Electric had by 1920 developed a photographic recorder for radio ...
David Mellor, 2013
8
How Movies Work
Bruce F. Kawin. Figure 2-89 you see in Fig. 2-86 will not be heard until just over a second later; it is in advance of its proper frame on the print. In 35mm optical sound, the sound is 20 frames ahead of the picture; in 16mm optical sound, it is 26 ...
Bruce F. Kawin, 1987
9
Motion Picture Photography: A History, 1891-1960
The optical sound head was installed also in the back of the camera and had a robust connection with the amplifier. A sunshade and matte box was available to be installed in front of the camera. Since it came out on the market and for many ...
H. Mario Raimondo-Souto, 2006
10
A Technological History of Motion Pictures and Television: ...
... for optical sound reproduction. Multiple- unit cone-and-baflle type loudspeakers38 were used, with a bank each side of the screen. The sound- reproducing device or "head" was mounted on the top of the projector, no standard sound offset ...
Raymond Fielding, 1967

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OPTICAL SOUND»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term optical sound is used in the context of the following news items.
1
A Fascinating Look at How a Film Projector Works
Modern 35mm film is likely to include not only the analog optical sound track, but also one or more digital optical soundtracks. This is accomplished by putting ... «Gizmodo, Jul 15»
2
A film series honoring Fort Lee's William Fox starts July 4
... "Vitaphone" sound process, which crudely synchronized movies to a disc recording, it was the Fox "Movietone" optical sound-on-film process, ... «NorthJersey.com, Jul 15»
3
acqua di parma: the sense of classic at palazzo cusani
35-mm film, colour, optical sound, 13:40 mins. courtesy of the artist / photo © a.osio. acqua di parma I'll be there forever, the sense of classic at ... «Designboom, May 15»
4
Amptown System Company to Present CINE SOUND LAB at …
In contrast to obsolete analog optical sound formats with severely limited dynamics, such as Dolby Stereo, modern digital soundtracks are not ... «DCinemaToday, May 15»
5
Nano-sized audio recordings could signal storage breakthrough
The motion picture industry employed optical sound-on-film recording for over 80 years, at least before digital recording took over. Now a team ... «ExtremeTech, Mar 15»
6
World's first plasmonic nanostructure recording could produce …
The use of optical sound-on-film recording on early movie films revolutionized the motion picture industry and remained the standard method of ... «Gizmag, Mar 15»
7
Nano piano's lullaby could mean storage breakthrough
"Our approach is analogous to the method of 'optical sound,' which was developed circa 1920s as part of the effort to make 'talking' motion ... «Phys.Org, Mar 15»
8
OYSTER PERPETUAL Mathias Poledna
35mm color film with optical sound, 6:40 min, 35mm frame enlargement. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin; ... «Brooklyn Rail, Mar 15»
9
Richard Tuohy on Cameraless Filmmaking, Dual Projectors and Fly …
Now, depending on the number of dots per inch or centimeter or whatever you like, the sound you're hearing, the optical sound you're hearing, ... «Westword, Nov 14»
10
SPACE Jam: Video Jam spreads its wings with the SPACES tour
“Expect new and exciting collaborations, 16mm projection, optical sound and found footage, ambitious sonic collages and visual experiments ... «The Skinny, Nov 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Optical sound [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/optical-sound>. Apr 2024 ».
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