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taperecorder

taperecorder is the alternative form 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

Forms of taperecorder

pluraltaperecorders

Questions about taperecorder

What is taperecorder the alternative form of?
Taperecorder is the alternative form of tape recorder.

Words near taperecorder in the dictionary

  1. taper off
  2. taper pin
  3. taper pins
  4. taperbearer
  5. taperbearers
  6. taperecorder
  7. taperecorders
  8. tapered
  9. tapered off
  10. taperer
  11. taperers

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