1
a
: a small rounded ornament or handle
b
: a rounded protuberance : lump
2
: a rounded usually isolated hill or mountain
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Examples of knob in a Sentence
a carved walking stick with a silver knob
toss a knob of butter into the frying pan
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Caitie Kelly Alexander Lobrano Jinnie Lee Roxanne Fequiere Camille Sojit Pejcha Juan A. Ramírez, New York Times, 9 May 2024
Hardware inputs and color groups can be routed to the master bus or an infinite number of buses via discrete send knobs that are either pre- or post-fader, or other color groups that can resample separate audio sources that are merged into a single color group and loop.
—Pete Cottell, WIRED, 2 May 2024
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Caitie Kelly Alexander Lobrano Jinnie Lee Roxanne Fequiere Camille Sojit Pejcha Juan A. Ramírez, New York Times, 9 May 2024
Hardware inputs and color groups can be routed to the master bus or an infinite number of buses via discrete send knobs that are either pre- or post-fader, or other color groups that can resample separate audio sources that are merged into a single color group and loop.
—Pete Cottell, WIRED, 2 May 2024
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“Knob.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/knob. Accessed 13 May. 2024.
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