TAPE DECK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tape deck mean? 

• TAPE DECK (noun)
  The noun TAPE DECK has 1 sense:

1. electronic equipment for making or playing magnetic tapes (but without amplifiers or speakers); a component in an audio system

  Familiarity information: TAPE DECK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAPE DECK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Electronic equipment for making or playing magnetic tapes (but without amplifiers or speakers); a component in an audio system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tape deck" is a kind of...):

electronic equipment (equipment that involves the controlled conduction of electrons (especially in a gas or vacuum or semiconductor))

Meronyms (parts of "tape deck"):

tape drive; tape transport; transport (a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tape deck"):

cassette deck (a tape deck for playing and recording cassette tapes)

Holonyms ("tape deck" is a part of...):

audio system; sound system (a system of electronic equipment for recording or reproducing sound)