[syn: play back, replay]
2. play (a melody) again;
3. repeat a game against the same opponent;
- Example: "Princeton replayed Harvard"
4. play again;
- Example: "We replayed the game"
- Example: "replay a point"
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
replay
n 1: something (especially a game) that is played again [syn:
replay, rematch]
2: the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports
action) that has been recorded on videotape [syn: replay,
instant replay, action replay]
v 1: reproduce (a recording) on a recorder; "The lawyers played
back the conversation to show that their client was
innocent" [syn: play back, replay]
2: play (a melody) again
3: repeat a game against the same opponent; "Princeton replayed
Harvard"
4: play again; "We replayed the game"; "replay a point"
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Replay
Acorn Computers' full-motion video system written by Roger
Wilson. Video and sound information are stored in compressed
form. Compression is relatively slow but decompression is
done in real-time with quality and frame-rate varying with
the processing power available, the size of the picture and
whether it appears in a window or uses the whole screen.
(1994-11-09)