video

1. 1.

   the visible part of a television transmission

   “they could still receive the sound but the picture was gone”

   Synonymspicture

   Broadervisual communication

   Part oftelevision
2. 2.

   a recording of both the visual and audible components (especially one containing a recording of a movie or television program)

   Synonymsvideo recording

   Broaderrecording

   Narrowervideocassettevideotape
3. 3.

   (computer science) the appearance of text and graphics on a video display

   Broadervisual communication

   computer science

4. 4.

   broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects

   “she is a star of screen and video”

   “Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done”

   SynonymstelevisiontelecastingTV

   Broaderbroadcasting

   Narrowercable televisionhigh-definition television

   Partsaudio

Other forms of video

plural

videos·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about video

What does video mean?

video means "the visible part of a television transmission". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in video?

video has 3 syllables: vid-e-o. The stress falls on "vid". In IPA it is /ˈvɪdioʊ/.

What is another word for video?

Close synonyms include picture, video recording, television, telecasting, TV. 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 video a common word?

video is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.