SOUND RECORDING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A recording of acoustic signals

Synonyms:

audio; audio recording; sound recording

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("sound recording" is a kind of...):

recording (a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sound recording"):

audiotape (a tape recording of sound)

disc; disk; phonograph record; phonograph recording; platter; record (sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove)

soundtrack (sound recording on a narrow strip of a motion picture film)

talking book (sound recording of someone reading a book; frequently used by blind people)