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Definition of "videotape" []

  • A relatively wide magnetic tape used to record visual images and associated sound for subsequent playback or broadcasting. (noun)
  • A recording made on such a tape. (noun)
  • To make a videotape recording of. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "videotape" in a sentence
  • "Our guests are Birgitta Jónsdóttir, member of the the Icelandic Parliament, co-producer of what they call the videotape, "Collateral Murder"; Daniel Ellsberg with us in University of"
  • "Authorities were gathering videotape from the Pentagon City area, searching rooftops of buildings and interviewing construction workers who were nearby and others."
  • "New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said officers were reviewing videotape from a network of 82 police surveillance cameras posted in the area and more footage from "dozens '" of other private security cameras in the city's busy entertainment district where the vehicle packed with gasoline and propane tanks failed to explode."