reel-to-reel

[reel-tuh-reel]

reel-to-reel

[reel-tuh-reel]
adjective
of or pertaining to an audio sound-equipment system or motion-picture camera or projector through which the tape or film must be threaded onto a take-up reel.

Origin:
1960–65
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Reel-to-reel is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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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reel-to-reel
 
adj
1.  (of magnetic tape) wound from one reel to another in use
2.  (of a tape recorder) using magnetic tape wound from one reel to another, as opposed to cassettes

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