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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Designating sound recording, playback equipment, or sound recordings that use magnetic tape which must be threaded through the equipment and onto an empty reel.

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  • noun A machine that records sound onto, or plays sound from, tape wound on one reel, by feeding it through to another reel.

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Originally descriptive, used in reel-to-reel recorder and like phrases, then shortened.

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