closed captionn.
/ˌkləʊzd ˈkapʃn/, U.S. /ˌkloʊzd ˈkæpʃ(ə)n/ Originally and chiefly North American.
A type of subtitle for television programmes (often providing information on sound effects, music, etc., as well as speech), optionally displayed and accessible through a decoder (now usually integral to the television).
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1975 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 10 May 5/3 Eventually..hearing-impaired people will have access to low-cost decoders for their homes and thus will be the only viewers with closed-caption programs with subtitles.
1992 Independent 9 Nov. 17/4 This Act says that all television sets with screens larger than 13in (33cm) sold in the US from July next year must have closed caption decoding technology built in.
2005 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 31 Aug. (Connect section) c6 The current version of the model launched last year..carries closed captions.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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