video.
Transient visual content or media, processed with technology, especially electronic.
Meaning & usage
Transient visual content or media, processed with technology, especially electronic.
Early TV used film to record video.
Which cable is for the video feed?
A recording or medium of visual content, especially audiovisual content for playback; a motion picture, movie, film.
Television content or media.
videotape, VHS.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *widéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *widēō Latin videōbor. English audioinflu. English video From the root vide of Latin videō (“to see”) + -o, formed in analogy to audio.
To record using a video camera, to videotape.
To record a television program.
To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *widéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *widēō Latin videōbor. English audioinflu. English video From the root vide of Latin videō (“to see”) + -o, formed in analogy to audio.
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