metal tape

American  

noun

1. a high-performance recording tape having a magnetic metal-particle coating that is not an oxide.

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metal tape British  

noun

1. a magnetic recording tape coated with pure iron rather than iron oxide or chromedioxide: it gives enhanced recording quality

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Example Sentences

Each champion has donated a club, and there is a left-handed lob wedge by Ping with metal tape on the back.

From Washington Times • Sep. 4, 2014

The world's three major sportswear manufacturers--Adidas, Nike and Reebok--have developed new technologies, from ice vests to metal tape to ventilated shoes, to keep athletes cool in the ancient city.

From Time Magazine Archive

It's easier to use, and definitely more comfortable than a metal tape measure.

From Time Magazine Archive

Talon's machines, which stamp zipper teeth out of metal tape and fasten them in a row on fabric, would be useless for anything else.

From Time Magazine Archive

Inside that two-inch shell of permallium was a small strip of metal tape on whose electrons and atoms were written the borrowed mind of a man.

From The Stutterer by Merliss, R. R.