magnetic recording

noun

: the process of recording sound, data (as for a computer), or a television program by producing varying local magnetization of a moving tape or disc
magnetic recorder noun

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The latter is relevant because magnetic recording tape for audiocassettes was made on manufacturing lines that coated a plastic film with a magnetic slurry, dried it, cut it into long strips, and rolled them up. Ashok Lahiri, IEEE Spectrum, 10 May 2017 These HDDs use the company’s Mozaic 3+ heat assisted magnetic recording, HAMR, technology, where lasers are used to reduce the magnetic fields from the write head required to write a high-densities on stable high coercivity magnetic recording media. Thomas Coughlin, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025

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First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of magnetic recording was in 1945

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“Magnetic recording.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/magnetic%20recording. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.

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