four-channel
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of four-channel
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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It’s a four-channel video and there are drawings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
Wuorinen was 32 when he won the Pulitzer for “Time’s Encomium,” a four-channel work for synthesized sound that became the first electronic composition to earn the honor.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 12, 2020
Playing behind us was a four-channel video installation titled “American Gothic 2017,” featuring footage that she’d collected in New York last Halloween.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 7, 2017
They were chopped and channeled into standard screen sizes for television showings and shorn of the four-channel magnetic stereo soundtracks that originally gave them added depth and presence.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2012
Audio enthusiasts have been jamming themselves into demonstration rooms in New York's Grand Central Station to hear the astonishingly lifelike effect created by four amplifiers, four loudspeakers and a four-track, four-channel tape recorder.
From Time Magazine Archive
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