sound head
noun Movies.
a mechanism through which film passes in a projector for conversion of the soundtrack into audio-frequency signals that can be amplified and reproduced.
Also called
sound gate.
Origin of sound head
First recorded in 1930–35
Words nearby sound head
sound bow,
sound camera,
sound check,
sound effect,
sound film,
sound head,
sound hole,
sound law,
sound man,
sound mixer,
sound motion picture
Example sentences from the Web for sound head
It contained figures of three ecclesiastics, "Sound-head, Rattle-head, and Round-head."
Caricature and Other Comic Art |James Parton.
British Dictionary definitions for sound head
sound head
noun
the part of a film projector that reproduces the sound in a film