set-top

[ set-top ]

adjective
  1. 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.

Origin of set-top

1
First recorded in 1990–95

Words Nearby set-top

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How to use set-top in a sentence

  • Apple watchers are convinced there will be an announcement about Apple's set-top device, but nothing major.

  • Next morning, early, I had the watch, and an order was given to set top-gallant studding-sails.

    Afloat And Ashore | James Fenimore Cooper
  • 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.

    The Privateersman | Frederick Marryat