reel-to-reel
Americanadjective
adjective
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(of magnetic tape) wound from one reel to another in use
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(of a tape recorder) using magnetic tape wound from one reel to another, as opposed to cassettes
Etymology
Origin of reel-to-reel
First recorded in 1960–65
Example Sentences
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Not long afterwards she was looking through an old briefcase when she came across an ageing, brown reel-to-reel tape-recording of her lullaby.
From BBC • Jan. 18, 2025
But UT maintained its own archive on 12,000 reel-to-reel tapes.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 20, 2024
Whitefoot and another young woman working for the school district went to a second-story storage area to locate some reel-to-reel films, she recalled.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2022
Movie Scores My father would blast movie scores like “The Ten Commandments” on his giant reel-to-reel and pretend he was conducting an orchestra.
From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2022
Even Dad's reel-to-reel answering machine's been sent back to Greenland.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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