tape recordingn.
A record (of sounds, etc.) on magnetic tape; the process of making such a recording.
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tape recording1940
audiotape1959
tapescript1961
demo tape1963
musicassette1966
DAT1982
1940 Electronics May 16 (heading) Photo-electric tape recording.
1940 Electronics May 16 17/1 The editor of such tape recordings has considerable freedom in arranging the material.
1946 Electronic Engin. 18 54 (heading) German tape-recording equipment.
1954 A. Huxley Let. 12 Dec. (1969) 718 I listened to the tape recording and the foreign language certainly doesn't sound like the gibberish of ordinary glossolalia.
1962 A. Lurie Love & Friendship xiv. 286 His voice sounded funny to him, like a tape-recording.
1977 P. Strevens New Orientations Teaching Eng. xiii. 163 A set of specialized tape recording/replay machines.
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