au·di·o·tape

[aw-dee-oh-teyp]
noun
magnetic tape for recording sound ( distinguished from videotape ).

Origin:
1960–65; audio- + tape

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audiotape
1958 (n.), from audio- + tape.
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Example sentences
He has since worked as an audiotape editor, a newscast writer and an education reporter.
The first audiotape was audible but the second audiotape was not audible.
Eventually, he said, his interrogators produced an audiotape of the conversation in which he had allegedly talked about planes.
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