VHS

Trademark. a format for recording and playing VCR tape, incompatible with other formats. Compare Beta ( def 7 ).
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World English Dictionary
VHS
 
—abbreviation for
video home system: a video cassette recording system using ½″ magnetic tape

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Vhs is always a great word to know.
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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History

VHS
1982, acronym of Video Home System.
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Computing Dictionary

VHS definition


1. Very High Speed.
2. storage Video Home System.
JVC's video cassette format.
3. Virtual Host Storage.

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American Heritage
Abbreviations & Acronyms
VHS
video home system
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Example sentences from the web
Goldsmith mailed five million homes with a vhs tape expressing his ideas.
Episodes of the show have been released on dvd and vhs during and after the series run.
Since the game was only a vhs tape, the missions played out the same way all the time.
Overall picture quality is intended to be comparable to vhs video.
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