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slideware

slideware noun: software that assists in the creation of digital slideshows.

Noun

slideware (uncountable)

  1. Software that assists in the creation of digital slideshows.
    • While it belongs to the broader genre of slideware, Microsoft Powerpoint is perhaps the best example of software that has achieved that level of ubiquity.2011, Laurie E. Gries, Collin Gifford Brooke, “An Inconvenient Tool: Rethinking the Role of Slideware in the Writing Classroom”, in Steve Parks, Linda Adler-Kassner, editors, The Best of the...

Origin of slideware

From slide + -ware.

Questions about slideware

What does slideware mean?
Slideware means software that assists in the creation of digital slideshows.
What part of speech is slideware?
Slideware is a noun.

Words near slideware in the dictionary

  1. slideshows
  2. slidest
  3. slideth
  4. slidewalk
  5. slidewalks
  6. slideware
  7. slideway
  8. slideways
  9. slidewire
  10. slidewires
  11. slidey

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