sensurround
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An audio process for motion pictures using low-frequency sound to produce physical sensations in an audience.
Example Sentences
- "The object of Sensurround is to subject the audience to such high levels of such low frequency sound that they feel as well as hear the sound waves."
- "Who is against upgrades, jump cuts, more channels, better speakers, the Sensurround pleasure dome of everyday life?"
- "For Libby, hysterics were an MGM Technicolor production in Dolby Sound and Sensurround."
- "Upstairs, you enter a cavernous ballroom, like a junior high school auditorium taken over by aliens with superior technology—featuring amazing lighting tricks and a Sensurround–style bass response that makes your chest feel as if it's going to explode."
- "She'd felt it coming in the routing reading of signals in the marriage sensurround."
- "Forty-seven malnourished men can make a surprising amount of noise. Never again do I expect to experience Dolby sensurround quadrophonic Nicam digital snoring of such exceptional quality."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentiō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super- Latin unda Latin undō Late Latin superundōder. Middle French souronderbor. Middle English sourrounden English surround blend English Sensurround Blend of sense + surround, coined as a brand name.