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set-top
[ set-top ]
adjective
- denoting a device designed to sit atop a television and serve as a link to interactive communications systems:
set-top boxes that allow viewers to order movies on demand.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of set-top1
First recorded in 1990–95
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Example Sentences
Apple watchers are convinced there will be an announcement about Apple's set-top device, but nothing major.
From The Daily Beast
Next morning, early, I had the watch, and an order was given to set top-gallant studding-sails.
From Project Gutenberg
She had been lying with her mainsail to the mast, but she evidently had made us out, for she filled and set top-gallant sails.
From Project Gutenberg
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