lead sheet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of lead sheet
An Americanism dating back to 1940–45
Example Sentences
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Key to making the system work is placing an insulating material such as a lead sheet between the pixels to increase the contrast between radiation readings coming into the detector from different directions.
From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2024
Stepney impressed them so much, he kept getting called back to work, and eventually became the label’s lead sheet writer.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2022
The second movement was a lead sheet with the melody and a chord progression.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2020
From the emerging pattern, the algorithm creates a partition or lead sheet with similar characteristics.
From Reuters • Oct. 17, 2016
The lead sheet is then put upon a revolving cylinder and turned under a moving stylus in the manner with which we are now familiar.
From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.
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