Mono Definition & Meaning
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There’s also a multi-speaker mode that delivers a standard mono mix – better for setups with more than two speakers.
—<img role="presentation" src="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dist-cross-dungarees/2025-01-14--17-33-16-3sty8/images/svg/redesign/vi-mdash.svg" alt=""/>Prakhar Khanna, <em>Forbes</em>, 1 Jan. 2025
Immersive Audio Mixing And Listening To Headphones Key features of the new software include support for 53 speaker configurations ranging from basic mono to Dolby Atmos and Auro-3D.
—<img role="presentation" src="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dist-cross-dungarees/2025-01-14--17-33-16-3sty8/images/svg/redesign/vi-mdash.svg" alt=""/>Mark Sparrow, <em>Forbes</em>, 6 Dec. 2024
Presley’s Sun Studios sessions, with guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, were recorded live to single-track mono tape by label owner Sam Phillips, which means any real remixes of the songs have always been impossible.
—<img role="presentation" src="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dist-cross-dungarees/2025-01-14--17-33-16-3sty8/images/svg/redesign/vi-mdash.svg" alt=""/>Brian Hiatt, <em>Rolling Stone</em>, 22 Oct. 2024
Use cheap 30-pound mono as leaders off of the main line.
—<img role="presentation" src="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dist-cross-dungarees/2025-01-14--17-33-16-3sty8/images/svg/redesign/vi-mdash.svg" alt=""/>Don Wirth, <em>Field & Stream</em>, 4 Apr. 2024
Organizations like Challenged Athletes offer grants for accessibility in sports like surfing, skiing, and rock climbing, while the Kelly Brush Foundation’s Active Fund provides outdoor equipment (like mono-skis and off-road hand cycles) for people with spinal-cord injuries.
—<img role="presentation" src="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dist-cross-dungarees/2025-01-14--17-33-16-3sty8/images/svg/redesign/vi-mdash.svg" alt=""/>Blair Braverman, <em>Outside Online</em>, 30 Oct. 2018
These heavy multitaskers showed higher prefrontal-cortex activity than mono-taskers.
—<img role="presentation" src="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dist-cross-dungarees/2025-01-14--17-33-16-3sty8/images/svg/redesign/vi-mdash.svg" alt=""/>Julie Jargon, <em>WSJ</em>, 30 Apr. 2022
In recent years, there has been a decline in the population of bees and pollinators due to intensive farming, pesticide use, climate change and mono-cropping.
—<img role="presentation" src="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dist-cross-dungarees/2025-01-14--17-33-16-3sty8/images/svg/redesign/vi-mdash.svg" alt=""/>Mckenzie Sadeghi, <em>USA TODAY</em>, 30 July 2021
There are several solutions, using heavier line like 4- to 6-pound mono on spinning tackle.
—<img role="presentation" src="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dist-cross-dungarees/2025-01-14--17-33-16-3sty8/images/svg/redesign/vi-mdash.svg" alt=""/>Bill May, <em>baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll</em>, 20 Mar. 2021
Actress Eva Mendes recently shared her experience undergoing a mono-thread facial treatment, where acupuncture-like pins, or threads, were injected around the contour of her jawline.
—<img role="presentation" src="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dist-cross-dungarees/2025-01-14--17-33-16-3sty8/images/svg/redesign/vi-mdash.svg" alt=""/>Megan Decker, <em>refinery29.com</em>, 5 Dec. 2020
Another of Pong’s fanciful mid-nineties creations was a mountain bike with a mono-blade suspension fork, a concept that Cannondale turned into the Lefty not long after.
—<img role="presentation" src="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dist-cross-dungarees/2025-01-14--17-33-16-3sty8/images/svg/redesign/vi-mdash.svg" alt=""/>Joe Lindsey, <em>Outside Online</em>, 11 Dec. 2020