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varispeed en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To modify the speed of playback of a sound.
    • In such instances, Martin discovered that his varispeeded notes bristled with the noise of the tiny hammers striking the piano strings as they were being recorded at half speed. 2019, Kenneth Womack, Solid State, page 155:
    • By exhaustively trolling through the sound library, I found various recordings of junky cars and broken machines, and I began to combine them with the synthetic tones. I spent a considerable amount of time varispeeding the elements, […] 2012, David Lewis Yewdall, Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound, page 286:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
varispeeding Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
varispeeds Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
varispeeded Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
varispeeded Tense=Past lexicographic