lateral recording

noun

1

: a recording process in which the cutting stylus produces a groove that remains constant in depth but undulates from side to side in accordance with the sound being recorded

2

: a disc record produced by lateral recording

Word History

First Known Use

1942, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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