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camcorder |
a portable video recording device that includes a camera and an audio recorder in one unit. |
capstan |
the revolving spindle in a tape recorder around which magnetic tape is wound and that regulates the speed at which the tape moves. [1/2 definitions] |
cassette |
a compact case for film, or audio or video tape, used to facilitate leading a camera or recorder. |
fipple |
a wedgelike slitted plug that stops the upper end of certain musical instruments, such as the recorder, and through which the player blows air. |
fipple flute |
a recorder or other vertical flute that has a slitted wedgelike plug, or fipple, in the mouthpiece. |
head |
the part of a tape recorder that picks up or erases the signals on the tape. [1/20 definitions] |
monitor |
to serve as a recorder, detector, observer, or the like. [1/11 definitions] |
reel-to-reel |
designating a tape recorder on which tape is wound from one reel to another. |
registrar |
a person acting as an official recorder, as of election rolls. [1/2 definitions] |
remote control |
a hand-held device with which to operate a television set, a videocassette recorder, certain toys, and the like, from a distance. [1/2 definitions] |
sopranino |
a sopranino instrument, esp. a recorder. [1/2 definitions] |
tape deck |
a tape recorder and player without its own amplifier or speaker, usu. part of a larger sound system. |
VCR |
abbreviation of "videocassette recorder," a device for recording on and replaying videocassettes, also known as a video recorder. |
videocassette recorder |
a device for recording on and replaying videocassettes; video recorder or VCR. |
wire |
(slang) a hidden microphone, usu. for a tape recorder. [1/14 definitions] |
wire recorder |
a device, a forerunner of the tape recorder, that records and plays back sound on magnetized steel wire. |
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