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How to use playback in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Playback means the replaying of something previously recorded, especially sound or moving images. Example: “User actions are recordable in a macro for playback at a later time.”

More sentences with playback

  • User actions are recordable in a macro for playback at a later time.From the entry recordable
  • Pressing the pause button will freeze the video playback.From the entry freeze
  • Playback will freeze if you pause the video.From the entry freeze
  • FMV is simply a playback of something that was previously recorded.2007, Jielin Dong, Network Dictionary, page 206. From the entry full motion video
  • Another cause of poor MP3 playback—especially when the sound is “gurgly”—is a “cooked” file.[2001, Michael Miller, “Chapter 34: Online Music”, in Special Edition Using the Internet and Web, Que, →ISBN, page 564. From the entry cooked
  • The frequency of intraframes determines the frequency of random access points for non-linear playback or editing.1999, Francis Botto, Dictionary of Multimedia and Internet Applications, page 156. From the entry intraframe
  • You certainly should have the final dubdowns of your playbacks from the sixteen track to the three-stripe 35mm.1980, Milton Lustig, Music editing for motion pictures, page 78. From the entry dubdown
  • Sample-based synthesis exploits the ability to repitch by a change of playback rate, to create simulations of existing instruments from digital recordings.2010, Nick Collins, Introduction to Computer Music, page 69. From the entry repitch
  • DSP can also eliminate ghost images from TV screens and banish those irritating Donald Duck squeaks and quacks from speeded-up playback of tape-recorded voice messages.1992 April, Gene Bylinsky, “A U.S. Comeback in Electronics”, in Fortune, volume 125, number 8, page 77. From the entry Donald Duck
  • OCTAVATION (also called Pitch Control) — Changing the rate of tape speed over the playback head of a tape recorder changes the pitch of the signal being played back.1973, George R Neaderhiser, Guidelines for the Development of a Comprehensive Music Curriculum for Elementary Secondary Schools, page…. From the entry octavation
  • His chinagraph pencil was clenched between his teeth as he listened with a look of furious concentration to the disc on the playback turntable, as if divining his future there.2018, Kate Atkinson, Transcription, →ISBN, page 182. From the entry chinagraph
  • EVERY ANIMATOR CAN TELL YOU what gimbal lock does to their animations: during playback arms suddenly go crazy, wrists can spin like a top, heads can go exorcist on you.2012, Eric Luhta, Kenny Roy, How to Cheat in Maya 2012: Tools and Techniques for Character Animation, Elsevier (Focal Press), page 138. From the entry gimbal lock

Meaning of playback

  1. noun The replaying of something previously recorded, especially sound or moving images.
  2. noun Lip-syncing.

Full definition of playback

Questions about playback in a sentence

How do you use playback in a sentence?
Playback is used as a noun. For example: “User actions are recordable in a macro for playback at a later time.”
What is a short sentence with playback?
“Playback will freeze if you pause the video.”
What does playback mean?
Playback means the replaying of something previously recorded, especially sound or moving images.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: playback (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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