audio card

noun

: sound card

Perhaps one of the biggest benefits of modern hardware-accelerated audio cards is the typical support for environmental reverberation effects that can be applied to 3D sounds.

—James R. Boer, Game Audio Programming, 2003

Word History

First Known Use

1989, in the meaning defined above

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