mag tape
- noun
- /mæg teɪp/
- Archaic
:
cinta magnética
- And we're also going to be recording... on both a hard drive and mag tape.
Examples
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That is if there were no shorts in any vacuum lamps, the mag tape reads (and writes) correctly, and there are no stray cats keeping warm in the huge mag tape cabinet.
Blog text (19) -
To compute a sine, one had to unload one's code into mag tape, just leaving the argument in the register, load code for sine from the mag tape, run it, store the result in the register, download one's code back, and continue with the computed result from the register.
Blog text (19) -
To compute a sine, one had to unload one's code into mag tape, just leaving the argument in the register, load code for sine from the mag tape, run it, store the result in the register, download one's code back, and continue with the computed result from the register.
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The sound engineer used mag tape to capture high-quality audio for the music album.
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For archival purposes, many historical recordings were transferred from mag tape to digital formats.
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The old film studio still relies on mag tape for storing video footage, despite modern technologies.
Synonyms
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1.8
A long thin plastic strip that holds recorded sound or video
17
2.9
Sound or pictures saved on long plastic tape for playing later
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3.9
A long thin strip of plastic covered with magnetic material to record sound, images, or data
Surface Forms
Morphology
mag + tape
The phrase is a straightforward modifier+noun composition: 'mag' is a clipped form of 'magnetic' and 'tape' is a recording strip, so the meaning 'magnetic tape' (a tape coated for recording) is directly derivable from its parts. Note that 'mag' is informal/abbreviated and may not be listed in dictionaries, so the transparency holds only if the learner recognises 'mag' as 'magnetic'.
Etymology
The noun mag tape comes from 'magnetic tape' and gives a simple picture: a long plastic tape covered with tiny magnets, the mag part, that hold sound or pictures. That's why mag tape means 'a long, thin strip used to record or store sound, video, or computer data'.