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English
Etymology
From wow + less.
Adjective
wowless (comparative more wowless, superlative most wowless)
- (audio) Free of wows.
1930 March, “RCA ‘Type G’ Reproducing Equipment”, in The Motion Picture Projectionist, volume 3, number 5, page 17:This damping device results in absolutely uniform and “wowless” rotation of the synchronous turntable.
1956 January, “Editor’s Report”, in Audio Magazine, volume 40, number 1, page 10: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.
- 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
- (rare) Not eliciting surprise or amazement; unremarkable, dull.
1964, Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man, London: Vintage, published 2010: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.