digital audiotape
- noun
- /ˈdɪdʒɪtəl ˈɔdiəˌteɪp/
- Archaic
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audiotape digital
- We used a separate video and digital audiotape (DAT) recorder to record the entire experimental session.
Examples
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In 1997, the edited digital audiotape was mastered on sixteen CDs; there also exists now a compressed version in MP3 format on two CDs of the entire collection.
Academic text (2018) -
To preserve the concert's quality, we recorded the audio onto a digital audiotape for clarity.
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The digital audiotape format was once popular among professional musicians for its high fidelity.
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When he discovered an old digital audiotape, he realized it contained recordings from his band's early days.
Synonyms
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3.7
A long strip of tape for recording sound
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8.4
A tape for recording and storing high-quality digital sound in studios
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from 'digital' (relating to electronic/numeric encoding) combined with 'audiotape' (a magnetic tape for recorded sound), so it denotes an audiotape that stores audio in digital form. This is a straightforward adjectival + noun composition common cross-linguistically and would be understood by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Digital audiotape names a tape that holds audio in a digital form. Imagine an old cassette-like tape made to store 'sound' as numbers rather than in a continuous way, so the name tells you it is a tape for 'digital' sound.