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magnetic tape
noun
- a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side single tape or both sides double tape with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
magnetic tape
noun
- a long narrow plastic or metal strip coated or impregnated with a ferromagnetic material such as iron oxide, used to record sound or video signals or to store information in computers Sometimes (informal) shortened tomag tape
magnetic tape
- A plastic tape coated with iron oxide for use in magnetic recording.
magnetic tape
- A device for storing information, in which signals are recorded by lining up small bits of magnetic materials in the coating on the tape. Ordinary tape recorders use magnetic tape.
Word History and Origins
Origin of magnetic tape1
Example Sentences
Inside the cassette is a kilometre of magnetic tape, capable of storing 18 terabytes of data.
At that time, he had to cut up strips of magnetic tape and then tape them back together.
Scientists communicated with these room-size machines by feeding mathematical and textual instructions into vacuum tubes via typewriters, magnetic tape and punched cards.
These particular cylinders were previously available to the library in the 1980s, when they were transferred to magnetic tape and released as part of a six-volume LP set compiling the Mapleson recordings.
It hasn’t helped that the agency has such outdated information technology systems that it sometimes uses a 1960s-era computer language for data processing and stores information on magnetic tapes in warehouses.
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