replay

n 1: something (especially a game) that is played again [syn: {rematch}]

2: (television) showing again some action (especially sports

action) that has been recorded on video tape [syn: {action

replay}]

v 1: reproduce a recording on a recorder [syn: {play back}]

2: play again, as of a melody

3: repeat a game against the same opponent: "Princeton replayed

Harvard"

4: play again: "We replayed the game"; "replay a point"

Replay

{Acorn Computers}' {full-motion video} system written by Roger

Wilson. Video and sound information are stored in compressed

form. Compression is relatively slow but decompression is

done in {real-time} with quality and {frame-rate} varying with

the processing power available, the size of the picture and

whether it appears in a {window} or uses the whole screen.

(1994-11-09)