from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A heart-shaped plane curve, the locus of a fixed point on a circle that rolls on the circumference of another circle with the same radius.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. An epicycloid with exactly one cusp; the plane curve with polar equation - having a shape supposedly heart-shaped
- adj. Having this characteristic shape
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. An algebraic curve, so called from its resemblance to a heart.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Resembling or having the characters of the Cardiidæ.
- n. A curve which may be considered as the path of a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls on another circle of equal size.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. an epicycloid in which the rolling circle equals the fixed circle
Do not use a omnidirectional mic or something like that, look up "cardioid" and make sure that's the type of mic you are using!
† For my fellow audio engineering geeks out there, my brother held an Audio Technica Dual Reference cardioid mic directly at the sound hole on an X axis.
Tried the directional cardioid and the omnidirectional capsule settings, went with the omnidirectional.
A word of caution that it is quite sensitive and will pick up a lot of ambient noise, even using the cardioid capsule.
Severing the cardioid arteries releases the pressure and drains blood from the brain.
The image expanded; they were diving into the cleft between the main cardioid and its tangent circle.
It has three capsules, with settings for stereo, cardioid, omnidirectional, and bidirectional recording; a built-in headphone amplifier for latency-free monitoring; and dials to control gain and headphone volume.
I was so fascinated by the shape and mathematical description of a simple curve (cardioid or cissoid per - haps) that I had stumbled across in my reading that again I could not rest until I had explored in depth as many curves as I could
The Electro-Voice N/DYM® N/D267AS is a dynamic cardioid vocal microphone that offers clear, consistent sound without low-end distortion.
The mic features a one-inch side-terminated cardioid capsule with an open airy top end response.