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V-mail, n.2 Computing.
Brit. |ˈviːmeɪl|, U.S. |ˈviˌmeɪl|
Forms: also with lower-case initial, with both initials capitalized, and as one word.
[‹ the initial letter of v ideo (in video mail n. at video- comb. form Additions) + mail n.1, after email n.2 Compare earlier v-mail n.1, V-Mail n. at V n. Initialisms 2.]
Video mail; a message by video mail.
1992Fortune 28 Dec. 92/3 Better start sprucing up: V-mail—messages sent and stored in video form—could become as common as E-mail. 1996E. L. Harry Society of Mind x. 255 She noticed a light blinking on a panel beneath the television screen. Underneath it was the word ‘V-mail’—video mail received by her room's television over Gray's satellite messaging system. 1999Personal Computer World Mar. 59/2 A V-Mail takes megabytes to convey a message that could travel as a kilobyte of text. 2003Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 1 Feb. c6 V-mail technology has been around for years, but bandwidth constraints and the expense of upgrading one's computer to view the videos have sidelined it as a niche feature. |