impress greatly; "The speaker wowed the audience"

Wow is a relatively slow variation in the frequency of reproduced sound caused by slow speed variations in records, tape recorders, etc. Pitch fluctuations of one or two per second are classified as wow, while faster variations are called flutter. In spec sheets wow is usually rated, along with flutter, as a percentage where the percentage is the percent of pitch deviation produced by these two phenomenon in the machine. In practice we have found wow and flutter specs to be more of a ballpark or relative measure. Machines can behave very differently depending upon the type of tape used or even environmental factors which can affect tape consistency. This is especially true with cassette type tapes where the tape shell's interaction with the tape is a huge variable. Wow and flutter are almost never an issue in digital recorders because tape speed has no direct bearing on the pitch of the audio playback or recording.

A crisp, engaging story or pitch that frames the selling proposition as, at least in part, and entertainment experience: the sheer delight a prospect feels on imagining a VW Beetle parked in her driveway. The unexpected pleasure of design, the anticipated compliments of friends and passers-by: it all adds up to, "Wow!" XYZ

Fluctuation in pitch as a result of mechanical recording or reproducing equipment.

The speed variation of a mechanical playback device such as an LP record player or analog tape recorder. Short-term speed variations are sometimes called flutter. Digital recording and playback devices do not produce wow, because their outputs are controlled (and slightly delayed) by an internal clock mechanism. Wow created by warped LP records is called warp wow.

Small variations in the playback speed of a tape, CD, record or other audio/video device resulting in pitch wobbling or variation.

A low pitch audio artifact caused by speed fluctuation in the playback device. See " Flutter."

Wow is a relatively slow form of flutter (pitch variation) which can affect both gramophone records and tape recorders. In the latter, the collective expression "wow and flutter" is commonly used.

Windows on Win32. A Windows NT protected subsystem that runs within a VDM process. It provides an environment for 16-bit Windows capable of running any number of applications for 16-bit Windows under Windows NT.

The subsystem for running Windows for MS-DOS under Windows NT; sometimes also called Win16 on Win32.

indows indows. This term indicates that a Windows NT system is running a Windows 3.1 virtual machine in order to allow the user to run 16-bit applications, which are not ordinarily allowed under Windows NT.

1. An outstanding success. 2. Dunn's game winning grand slam. 3. Griffey's 17th home run that left the yard.

Windows on Win32. A protected subsystem that runs within a VDM process. It provides a 16-bit Windows environment capable of running any number of 16-bit Windows applications on an NT-based operating system.