tape recorder

Questions about tape recorder

What does tape recorder mean?

tape recorder means "a magnetic recorder using magnetic tape".

What is another word for tape recorder?

Close synonyms include tape machine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tape recorder a common word?

tape recorder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.