videotape

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Etymology

From video + tape, a trademark of media company Ampex.

Noun

videotape

1. A relatively wide magnetic tape used for recording visual images and sounds (as of a television production) for subsequent playback or broadcasting.

Translations

• French: bande vidéo, vidéocassette
• German: Videoband
• Italian: videonastro
• Portuguese: video-tape, videotape, videoteipe, fita de vídeo
• Russian: видеоплёнка
• Spanish: video, cinta de video

Verb

videotape (videotapes, present participle videotaping; simple past and past participle videotaped)

1. to make a recording of something on videotape
2. (ambitransitive) To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.

Translations

• Italian: videoregistrare
• Portuguese: gravar em vídeo, videogravar
• Spanish: grabar en video, videograbar

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