replay
Noun · VerbWordNet 3.0
Noun (2)
- something (especially a game) that is played againSynonyms: rematch
- the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotapeSynonyms: instant replayaction replay
Verb (4)
- reproduce (a recording) on a recorder“The lawyers played back the conversation to show that their client was innocent”Synonyms: play back
- play (a melody) again
- repeat a game against the same opponent“Princeton replayed Harvard”
- play again“We replayed the game”“replay a point”
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
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)