trinaural

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adjective

Having a third audio channel in addition to the binaural or stereo channels.

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Meanings

adjectivetrinaural (not comparable)
  1. not comparablerareHaving a third audio channel in addition to the binaural or stereo channels.

    The Hamilton Trinaural Sound System. Remember the night we dreamed that up? Three cartridges, needles, amplifiers, speakers. Mounted in three rooms. A man in each room, listening to each rig.

    1957, Philip K. Dick, Eye in the Sky
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    However, I was informed that some current stereo releases are "trinaural" — three-channel rather than two — and I'd like some information about this. Are these actually three-channel stereo tapes?

    1957, High Fidelity, volume 7, numbers 1-6, page 8

    The talking drum held under the arm had soft sides that yielded three different tonal pitches, high, middle, and low, according to the pressure of the arm. This amounted to a “Morse Code” with three signals — a trinaural rather than a binaural system.

    2004, Henry H. Mitchell, Black Church Beginnings

Origin

From tri- + -n- + aural.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with trinaural

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Anagrams

antirural
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APA

trinaural. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trinaural

MLA

“trinaural.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trinaural. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “trinaural,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trinaural.

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