[
US
/ˈpɫeɪˌbæk/
]
[ UK /plˈeɪbæk/ ]
[ UK /plˈeɪbæk/ ]
NOUN
-
the act of reproducing recorded sound
he was allowed to hear the playback of his testimony - electronic equipment comprising the part of a tape recorder that reproduces the recorded material
How To Use playback In A Sentence
- Your camcorder should have these basic features: autofocus, playback facility, zoom lens.
- We liked the ability to use the mouse and move a slider bar to speed up a ‘slow talker’ or slow down the playback of someone talking too fast.
- We managed 33 hours of music playback from a charge. Times, Sunday Times
- A TV playback showed exactly what had happened.
- So what I've been doing all along at lunchtime is unplugging the 3 different cables (power, DSL, keyboard/mouse adapter) from the back of the laptop and carting it up the hall to the kitchen for podcast playback while preparing and munching a sandwich. Bluetooth headset for podcast listening convenience
- I knew that they did not respond to the alarm call playbacks, so I had to come up with something more enticing. The Elephant's Secret Sense
- No movie playback and no remote control. Times, Sunday Times
- The display doesn't match the resolution of the iPhone but movie playback looks great here. The Sun
- During DVD playback, all sounds were where they should have been, and all at normal volumes.
- The movies are musicals, but the actors don't sing; they lip-synch to songs previously recorded by playback singers.
