flanger
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flangers
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Music. a device or software that changes a sound by copying it and playing the copy over the original signal with a slight, shifting delay.
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a device for scraping snow and ice from railway lines, or a rail car that has such a device attached.
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Rather, Eddie ran a Fender Rhodes electric piano through a flanger and fed it all into a Marshall amp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2020
Boilermakers are no longer boilermakers; the union includes welders, shipfitters, hook tenders, caulkers, riggers, shrinkers, flangers, "holder-ons."
From Time Magazine Archive
Out of the house he plumped, to the waiting double-header of locomotives attached to the rotary, and the other engines, parked on the switches, with their wedge ploughs, jull-ploughs, flangers, and tunnel wideners.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Edison Marshall
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