Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

close captioning

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.58 in modern English

Syllables: close -cap-tion-ing
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of closed captioning.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"the prison did not have basic assistive devices, including a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), close captioning devices, and visual alarms and signals."
"Additionally, in a research-film, faces being blurred can ensure confidentiality, voices can be changed, and subtitles or close captioning can be used to disguise the identity of an informant who wants to be anonymous."
"D/HoH people require close captioning and assistive technologies to access electronic and audio-visual information, including news and current events."

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does close captioning mean?: Alternative form of closed captioning.

How to pronounce close captioning

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