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wowless en · ADJ

Etymology

From wow + -less.

Meanings

1. Free of wows.
   • 1990, Stanley R. Alten, Audio in Media, Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing, 4th edition, 1994, Chapter 16, “Insert Editing,” p. 517, To get a wowless insert edit, you will have to preroll not only the master tape but the insert tape as well
   • This damping device results in absolutely uniform and “wowless” rotation of the synchronous turntable. 1930 March, “RCA ‘Type G’ Reproducing Equipment”, in The Motion Picture Projectionist, volume 3, number 5, page 17:
   • If for no other reason, the difficulty of obtaining a wowless speed at 16⅔ rpm should be enough to unsell any music lover for his high-quality listening system, especially with changers or low-priced turntables. 1956 January, “Editor’s Report”, in Audio Magazine, volume 40, number 1, page 10:
2. (rare) Not eliciting surprise or amazement; unremarkable, dull.
   • An audience of young instructors and their wives, symbolically entertaining Dr and Mrs Dreyer, will be symbolically thrilled to catch the Dean in an anecdotal mood, mooning and mumbling with a fuddled smile through a maze of wowless sagas, into which George and many many others will enter, uttering misquotes. 1964, Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man, London: Vintage, published 2010:

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