multimedia

mul·ti·me·di·a  (mlt-md-, -t-)

adj.

1. Of or relating to the combined use of several media: a multimedia installation at the art gallery.

2. Computer Science Of or relating to an application that can combine text, graphics, full-motion video, and sound into an integrated package.

pl.n. (used with a sing. verb)

1. The combined use of media, such as movies, music, lighting, CD-ROMs, and the Internet, as for education or entertainment.

2. The combined use of media, such as television, radio, print, and the Internet, as for advertising or publicity.

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multimedia [ˌmʌltɪˈmiːdɪə]

pl n

(Electronics & Computer Science / Communications & Information) the combined use of media such as television, slides, etc., esp in education

adj

1. (Electronics & Computer Science / Communications & Information) of or relating to the use of a combination of media multimedia teaching aids

2. (Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) Computing of or relating to any of various systems which can manipulate data in a variety of forms, such as sound, graphics, or text

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

multimedia - transmission that combine media of communication (text and graphics and sound etc.) multimedia system transmission - communication by means of transmitted signals hypermedia, hypermedia system, interactive multimedia, interactive multimedia system - a multimedia system in which related items of information are connected and can be presented together

Translations

multimedia [ˈmʌltɪˈmiːdɪə] ADJ [aids, presentation] (also Comput) → multimedia

multimedia [ˌmʌltiˈmiːdiə] n

(= products with sound, pictures, film) → multimédia m

(EDUCATION) → multimédia m

(ART) → multimédia m multimedia machine
multimedia machine n → ordinateur m multimédia
multi-millionaire multimillionaire [ˌmʌltimɪliəˈnɛə^r] n → multimillionnaire m/f, multimilliardaire m/f