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tape recorders

tape recorders is the plural of tape recorder.

Meaning of tape recorder

Noun

tape recorder (plural tape recorders)

  1. (sound engineering) An electromechanical device use to record and play back sound, etc.
    • A cabled despatch is better than nothing, but a voicecast of tolerable quality is preferable, and in certain types of story a voicecast with live or recorded actuality is best of all. Correspondents all have portable tape recorders.1964, European Broadcasting Union, EBU Review: Programmes, Administration, Law, volume 83, page 22

Questions about tape recorders

What is tape recorders the plural of?
Tape recorders is the plural of tape recorder.

Words near tape recorders in the dictionary

  1. tape over
  2. tape painting
  3. tape player
  4. tape players
  5. tape recorder
  6. tape recorders
  7. tape recording
  8. tape recordings
  9. tape safe
  10. tape safes
  11. tape transport

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