Crossword clues for hi-fi
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Phonograph \Pho"no*graph\, n. [Phono- + -graph.]
A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.
(Physics) An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration, and reproduce the sound.
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an instrument for reproducing sounds, especially music, previously recorded on a plastic cylinder or disk as a pattern of bumps or wiggles in a groove. A needle (stylus) held in the groove is made to vibrate by motion (rotation) of the recording, and the vibrations caused by the bumps and wiggles are transmitted directly to a membrane, or first to an electronic amplifier circuit, thereby reproducing with greater or less fidelity the original sounds. A phonograph which is equipped with electronics enabling the playback of sound with high fidelity to the original is often called a hi-fi.
Note: In the 1990's such devices are beginning to be replaced in many homes by compact disk players; the production of plastic recordings of music for playback on a phonograph has almost ceased for entertainment purposes.
hifi \hifi\, hi-fi \hi-fi\[shortening of high fidelity.] n. An electronic device that plays phonograph records, reproducing the original sound with a high degree of fidelity. It superseded the older phonographs, and itself is being displaced in popularity by CD players.
Syn: hi-fi, high fidelity sound system.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1947, abbreviation of high fidelity (1934), of radio receivers, in reference to their quality of sound reproduction. Hi as an advertiser's phonetic shortening of high is attested by 1914. Fidelity in the sense "faithful reproduction of sound" is from 1878.
Wiktionary
n. high fidelity
WordNet
adj. characterized by minimal distortion in sound reproduction; "a high-fidelity recording"; "a hi-fi system" [syn: high-fidelity]
n. equipment for the reproduction of sound with high fidelity [syn: high fidelity sound system]
the reproduction of sound with little or no distortion [syn: high fidelity]
Wikipedia
Hi-Fi is a compilation album released by Compulsion in 1995.
Hi-Fi is a Russian pop dance group established in 1998 founded by composer Pavel Esenin and songwriter and producer Eric Chanturia. The concept of group was the male leader and two supportive dancers-performers till 2006, when Katya(Ekaterina) Lee joined the group.
Katya started her career in the band with solo song Vzletai. From then on female and male vocals had equal parts. When Katya Lee left, the group went back to the old concept of the male singing. In 2009 Mitya Fomin left the group and started solo career. Later in 2010 Katya Lee left the group and joined another popular girls band Fabrika. The group has had many hits on the Russian charts and has won "Best Dance Group" at the Russian television "Муз-ТВ" in 2005.
Usage examples of "hi-fi".
They hung Playboy Playmates on the wall, set up his hi-fi, with the tweed speaker covers, and his aquarium with the grow light and the bubbler, which imparted a chill, dank smell to the basement air.
If it was not some slot machine it was the next-size dispenser or a jumbo-size razzmatazz hi-fi stereo speaker.
One of these Frank kept positioned exactly facing the massive speakers of his elaborate hi-fi system, its working parts concealed inside a birchwood Biedermeier tallboy that had been disembowelled to accommodate it.
It was at this witching time that I found her, preparing a gigantic Salade Nicoise to the sound of Bartok on the hi-fi, the last of the evening light streaming through the huge windows on to her russet hair and beautifully faded smock.
With us all the way had been Sullivan's three-antenna marine-band hi-fi portable radio, a never-ending squall of disc jockey babytalk, commercials for death, upstate bluegrass Jesus, and as we drove through the cloverleaf bedlams and past the morbid gray towns I perceived that all was in harmony, the stunned land feeding the convulsive radio, every acre of the night bursting with a kinetic unity, the logic beyond delirium.
We had a hi-fi and Galadriel's record collection and strobe lights and electric guitars.
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The place, she'd found out, was full of young swingies who turned their hi-fis up in the evening and invited each other in for cocktails and Sangria at their Studio bars.
Tone's just started a job in the warehouse in Currys, and is starting to develop a nice little sideline in knocked-off portable hi-fis, like the one we're listening to now.
With studied gracelessness he shuffled around his four-room office — televisions, hi-fis, a pinball machine, De Palma film posters, curved white tables, orderly work-surfaces.
I had just spent the entire evening taking readings of the Delta Smegma Hi-Fi fraternity's annual toga party, panty raid and orgy, and I was eager, as you might very well imagine, to feed the results into my computer-monitored apparatus.
One far wall in shadow was all books and phonograph records, floor to ceiling, except for the space taken by a formidable hi-fi.
Any money he'd saved on rent, he'd invested in electronics, with multiple computers, a plasma TV, and a hi-fi system that I'm sure rocked the neighbors even a mile away.
Last time he'd only noticed that there was no Ned, and he'd missed a lot of things: the flash hi-fi, the hundreds of CDs and thousands of records and tapes, the black and white photos of people playing saxophones and the film posters on the wall, the wooden floors, the rug.
I mentioned that he was a sound engineer, and his room was fitted up with Hi-Fi set, tape recorder, and the usual electronic tools of his trade, some of which the B.