full motion video
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.49 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Video marketed as being of sufficient quality to make motion appear continuous to humans, considered to require at least 16 frames per second.
Countable; Dated; Uncountable
noun
In-game footage that is pre-rendered, often using real-world scenes, as opposed to being rendered in-engine or in real time.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "When most companies become involved in teleconferencing, usually their first interest is in full-motion video conferencing."
- "Originally, 72 minutes of partial-screen (one-eighth) full-motion video could be stored. These pictures are fairly coarse — worse than low-quality VCR..."
- "To digitize and store a 10 seconds clip of full motion video in a computer requires transfer of an enormous amount of data[…]"
- "But while the small screen and grainy full-motion video on a CD-ROM […] may wow computerphiles […], it won't impress the MTV generation."
- "In reality, multimedia was associated first and foremost with the development of full-motion video. This fascination for a cinema-like illusion of motion […]"
- "Stored full-motion video is useful for messages and information dissemination, whereas live video can be used for direct interaction, medical applications, manufacturing applications, and a variety of other process control processes."