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DVR

DVR is the initialism of digital video recorder.

DVR is the initialism of discrete valuation ring.

Meaning of digital video recorder

Noun

digital video recorder (plural digital video recorders)

  1. a personal video recorder

Meaning of discrete valuation ring

Noun

discrete valuation ring (plural discrete valuation rings)

  1. (ring theory) A local principal ideal domain whose unique maximal ideal is not the zero ideal.
    Synonyms:
    DVR

Verb

DVR (third-person singular simple present DVRs, present participle DVRing, simple past and past participle DVRed)

  1. (transitive) To record (a broadcast) using a digital video recorder.

Synonyms of DVR

Forms of DVR

Noun
pluralDVRs
Verb
third-person singular presentDVRs
present participleDVRing
past participleDVRed
pastDVRed

Questions about DVR

What does DVR mean?
DVR means to record (a broadcast) using a digital video recorder.
What is DVR the initialism of?
DVR is the initialism of digital video recorder.
What part of speech is DVR?
DVR is a verb.
What is the past tense of DVR?
The past tense of DVR is DVRed.

Words near DVR in the dictionary

  1. Dvořákian
  2. Dvořákians
  3. DVP
  4. DVPN
  5. DVPs
  6. DVR
  7. DVRed
  8. DVRing
  9. DVRs
  10. DVS
  11. DVSA

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: DVR (page history and authors); digital video recorder (page history and authors); discrete valuation ring (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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