dolby

1. 1.

   United States electrical engineer who devised the Dolby system used to reduce background noise in tape recording

   SynonymsRay M. Dolby

   Broaderelectrical engineer

Other forms of dolby

plural

dolbies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dolby

What does dolby mean?

dolby means "United States electrical engineer who devised the Dolby system used to reduce background noise in tape recording".

How many syllables are in dolby?

dolby has 2 syllables: dol-by. The stress falls on "dol". In IPA it is /ˈdoʊlbi/.

What is another word for dolby?

Close synonyms include Ray M. Dolby. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dolby a common word?

dolby is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.