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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

mul•ti•me•di•a*ˌmʌl tiˈmi di ə, ˌmʌl taɪ-(n.)

  1. the combined use of several media, as sound and video in a computer application.

    Category: Common Vocabulary

  2. (adj.)of or involving the use of several media simultaneously.

    Category: Common Vocabulary

  3. having or offering the use of various communications or promotional media.

    Category: Common Vocabulary

* (used with a sing. v.).

Origin of multimedia:

1960–65

mul`ti•me′di•al

Princeton's WordNet

  1. multimedia, multimedia system(noun)

    transmission that combine media of communication (text and graphics and sound etc.)

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. multimedia(adjective)ˌmʌl tiˈmi di ə, ˌmʌl taɪ-

    using many methods of electronic communication

    the website's multimedia and interactive features

Wiktionary

  1. multimedia(Noun)

    the use of different media to convey information; text together with audio, graphics and animation, often packaged on CD-ROM with links to the Internet

  2. multimedia(Adjective)

    of, or relating to this combined use of media

  3. multimedia(Adjective)

    of, or relating to an application that can combine such media into an integrated package

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Multimedia

    Materials, frequently computer applications, that combine some or all of text, sound, graphics, animation, and video into integrated packages. (Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, 1994)


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