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What does long-playing mean?

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Adjective
  1. Referring to records that recorded a greater amount of sound than previous versions had, an LP, generally a 12 inch 33 1/3 RPM record.
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They pruned their results down to two long-playing sides.
The night before he called, my wife Brenda and I had been in town and we had bought a long-playing record.
And most bands that achieve long-playing immortality play around gaps in ordinary language.
The advent of long-playing records radically altered the situation.
The invention of the long-playing vinyl record in 1948 liberated composers from the three-minute confines of 78 rpm recordings.
Landowska, Tureck, Gould, and the long-playing record, I believe, did much to bring this monument to public attention.

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