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AUDIOTAPE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does audiotape mean?
• AUDIOTAPE (noun)
The noun AUDIOTAPE has 2 senses:
2. magnetic tape for use in recording sound
Familiarity information: AUDIOTAPE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tape recording of sound
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("audiotape" is a kind of...):
audio; audio recording; sound recording (a recording of acoustic signals)
tape; tape recording; taping (a recording made on magnetic tape)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "audiotape"):
DAT; digital audiotape (a digital tape recording of sound)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Magnetic tape for use in recording sound
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("audiotape" is a kind of...):
mag tape; magnetic tape; tape (memory device consisting of a long thin plastic strip coated with iron oxide; used to record audio or video signals or to store computer information)
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