audio file
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈɔːdioʊ faɪl/
- Specialized
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archivo de audio
- I downloaded an audio file of my favorite song so I can listen to it offline.
- digital audio file
- audio file format
- MP3 audio file
will come through loud and clear, improving the source audio files.
- will come through loud and clear, improving the source audio files.
- So a nice preamp with some nice clean gain to power some wired headphones, probably open back and some nice single source audio files with high bit rate.
- And the fucking files, the audio files are fucked up and we don't know why.
- I had your positive news there and that was sick and got home and audio files were corrupted and I was like, you are taking absolute piss.
Examples
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Audio Interchange File Format (.aiff) is an uncompressed audio file format standard used for storing sound data on personal computers.
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This time we're going to look at audio file formats.
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I need an audio file on this now.
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Just got this audio file.
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All the audio files are there.
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Once recorded, you can save the audio file and add it to a separate audio track.
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I've also got an audio file here.
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The U. N. Just received an encrypted audio file.
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The MP3 format has become the popular way to store music and other digital audio files.
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LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and publish the audio files on the Internet.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
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1.5
A saved audio or video file you can play
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2.3
A saved sound like a file or tape of speech and music
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3.2
A saved copy of voices, music, or other noises you can play back
How High-Quality
- Specialized
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- Specialized
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3.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'audio' (recorded sound) with 'file' (a stored electronic item); an adjective-noun composition where the modifier specifies the file's content is a standard, compositional pattern. This construction is cross-linguistically common and predictable, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Audio file comes from putting audio, meaning sound, into a file, like a folder on your computer that keeps a recording. So it means 'a computer file that has recorded sound you can play'.