videogramn.
/ˈvɪdɪəʊɡram/, U.S. /ˈvɪdioʊˌɡræm/ 1.
a. A message or communication that includes images (usually moving images) as well as sound.Originally a concept in Science Fiction.
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1951 Astounding Sci. Fiction Feb. 69/1 Any change of assignment would come in the form of an innocuous videogram that a certain book was available in the Mesa bookstore.
1960 New Worlds Sci. Fiction (Concord, New Hampsh.) May 45 I sent a videogram to Venus yesterday. I didn't know you'd left there until the police call this morning.
1983 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) 4 May 51/5 A Madison video production company, will set up its videotaping booths on Saturday... Families will be able to send a ‘videogram’ to Mom for Mother's Day.
1994 Winnipeg Free Press 6 Apr. b1/5 Videograms are coming, courtesy of the Manitoba Telephone System.
2007 Odessa (Texas) Amer. 23 Dec. 6 a (heading) Sending videograms overseas. Technology reunites war-torn families.
b. A pre-recorded video recording; a commercial video film or disc.Now chiefly in the names of organizations (as the International Federation of Phonographers and Videogram Producers and the British Videogram Association), and in allusion to them.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun] > a video recording
videotape1953
videotape recording1953
video recording1956
vid1961
video1968
videogram1972
1972 Publishers Weekly 10 Apr. 27/2 Mr. Geranton insisting on the distinction between a video copy of a previous work (say a film) and an original ‘videogram’.
1980 Daily Tel. 15 Oct. 18 The newly formed British Videogram Association..will put an end to people taping a film on one television channel while they watch football..on the other.
1982 R. Dean Home Video vi. 71 Videogram sales and rentals are now dominated by features, with ‘adult’ subjects..running close behind.
1991 Sight & Sound Oct. 71/3 In 1983, at the height of the ‘video nasty’ moral panic, the European Parliament gave ‘outline approval’ for a Videogram Inspection Office.
2004 Time Out 25 Aug. 98/4 Includes..‘Car Craze’, which screens like a corrupted videogram from the post-pollution underground.
2. A moving spectrogram that shows the variation of a spectral distribution with time. Now disused.
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1958 Telecommunications (U.S.S.R. Ministry Communications) No. 8. 847 In Fig. 2 is adduced a videogram (a dynamic spectrogram).
1968 Cybernetics Abstr. No. 12. 103 Such transformations are scale transformations of the speech signal along the axes of amplitude, time, and frequency, if speech is represented in the form of videograms.
1978 Nucl. Instruments & Methods 151 109 (caption) Examples of videograms recorded by triggering the detector with electrons and pions.
3. A device for making or reproducing video recordings. rare.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > production or use of video recording > [noun] > video recorder or player
VTR1954
videotape recorder1956
video1958
vid1961
videogram1963
teleplayer1968
home video1970
VCR1971
U-Matic1972
video recorder1978
VHD1980
VHS1982
S-VHS1987
1963 Times 17 Aug. 4/2 A young Wolverhampton design consultant said today that he had invented a record player which reproduced vision as well as sound... Mr. Mason's videogram—as he has named it—could be on sale soon.
1972 Guardian 11 Apr. 15/2 They have ordered 60 cassette recorders—videograms is the coming word.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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