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digislate en · NOUN

Etymology

From digi- + slate.

Meanings

1. A computer resembling a slate or tablet.
   • I used to borrow one of the inventory digislates with general network access, then slip up here to research. 2016, Tessa Elwood, Split the Sun:
   • I have us make maps of our territory on digislates we found in a waterlogged cellar at the bottom of a ravine, […] 2014, Pierce Brown, Red Rising:
2. A clapperboard with a digital display.
   • A DigiSlate is a clapperboard with the ingenious addition of a digital timecode display (hours : minutes : seconds : frames). 2003, Chris Jones, The Guerilla^([sic]) Film Makers Movie Blueprint, page 318:
   • A DigiSlate can be set to display either SMPTE or internal (real time) time code. 2010, Richard W. Kroon, A/V A to Z: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Media, Entertainment and Other Audiovisual Terms, page 207:

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