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video

Pronunciation: /ˈvɪd.i.əʊ/

The English word “video” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Transient visual content or media, processed with technology, especially electronic.
  2. A recording or medium of visual content, especially audiovisual content for playback; a motion picture, movie, film.
  3. Television content or media.
  4. videotape, VHS.

verb

  1. To record using a video camera, to videotape.
  2. To record a television program.
  3. To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.

Etymology

From the root vide of Latin videō (“to see”) + -o, formed in analogy to audio.

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