Betamax

Beta制大尺寸磁带录像系统

词形变化

Betamaxed Betamaxes 三单 Betamaxes Betamaxing Betamaxing 现在分词 Betamaxed 过去式 Betamaxed 过去分词

别名

Beta

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To make (something) obsolete.

    非正式 及物
name
  1. 1.

    A home videocassette recording format developed by Sony in 1975, now known for having lost the format war to VHS.

词源

According to Sony, the name had a double meaning: beta is the Japanese word used to describe the way in which signals are recorded on the tape; and the shape of the Greek letter beta β resembles the course of the tape through the transport. The suffix -max, from maximum, was added to suggest greatness.

来源：wiktionary