How to Use magnetic tape in a Sentence

magnetic tape

noun

• When the creations are complete, affix magnetic tape to the backs.
  — Joan Lang, Woman's Day, 9 Sep. 2019
• Long-term storage was left to mediums like magnetic tape and punch cards.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2019
• Like the hard disk and the transistor, magnetic tape has advanced enormously over the decades.
  — Mark Lantz, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Aug. 2018
• Since its invention in 1928, magnetic tape has played a role in recording all sorts of data.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Apr. 2018
• Oelze bought an Echoplex — a machine that uses magnetic tape to add delay to a sound — and ran Auldridge’s Dobro guitar through it.
  — Washington Post, 3 May 2022
• Twist magnetic tapes back into clean loops that say, Now repeat—qué onda?
  — Hazlitt, 29 Mar. 2023
• Data may be stored on media that degrade, like punch cards, floppy disks or magnetic tape.
  — Keith Kintigh, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2018
• That strong magnetic tape, slipped into a little cassette recorder, has held us together for all these years.
  — Eileen Sharkey, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2018
• Unlike other robot vacuums, this one comes with a strip of magnetic tape that can be placed to block off an area or a room where it's not allowed to enter.
  — Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com, 17 July 2021
• The most simplistic requires you to use tape, known as barrier tape, boundary tape, or just magnetic tape.
  — Popular Science, 15 Mar. 2021
• The set includes a one-piece swimsuit, one pair of biker shorts, a wristband/headband set, magnetic tape earrings and legwarmers.
  — Lisa Levine, Variety, 5 Oct. 2022
• The linear code is quite lengthy (about 6 feet long per human cell), so it’s stored neatly wound around protein bobbins, similar to how magnetic tape is wound around spools in cassette tapes.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
• But digital recordings are perishable in their own right — far less stable, in fact, than recordings on magnetic tape.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2019
• Beyond taking up loads of space, your old VHS recordings rely on magnetic tape that is known to deteriorate over time.
  — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2021
• In part that’s because the physical media they were originally recorded on — film stock and magnetic tape — were so fragile.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• Amazon, by contrast, offers tiered storage services, where customers pay more for hot storage and less for storage methods that take longer to access, such as on magnetic tape.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2021
• The whirr of spooling magnetic tape is more likely to evoke feelings of nostalgia than technological awe.
  — The Economist, 15 Dec. 2020
• Its archives of magnetic tape were recently digitized thanks to a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
  — Jeremy Gordon, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
• The music industry largely stopped cutting performances directly to disc 70 years ago, with the advent of magnetic tape.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 June 2022
• If civilization stopped right now, in a thousand years all the magnetic tape, compact discs and hard drives humanity stores its digital media on would have long outlived their shelf lives.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Oct. 2017
• Over 60% of retained data is stored in colder storage technologies (mostly HDDs and magnetic tape with some optical disc storage as well).
  — Tom Coughlin, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• But in order to replace existing silicon chip or magnetic tape storage technologies, DNA is going to have to get a lot cheaper to predictably read, write, and package.
  — Megan Molteni, WIRED, 26 June 2018
• The first blog focused on developments and projections for magnetic recording (HDDs and magnetic tape).
  — Tom Coughlin, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2021
• These particular cylinders were previously available to the library in the 1980s, when they were transferred to magnetic tape and released as part of a six-volume LP set compiling the Mapleson recordings.
  — Jeremy Gordon, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
• Just a few years prior, magnetic tape data was read mechanically.
  — Ryan Larry, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2022
• The space agency often reused its expensive magnetic tapes, erasing and overwriting data.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 Apr. 2018
• Another is video, which is an electronic method of recording onto various mediums, such as moving magnetic tape.
  — Howard Berry, Quartz, 18 July 2019
• In addition, the regulation also required magnetic tape recorders be retired in favor of solid-state devices, a rule that took effect this January.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 7 May 2019
• For a digital archive, the French National Library’s collection of Web data is surprisingly small—just 200 terabytes stored on hard disks and magnetic tape in the library’s data center.
  — Ariel Bleicher, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2011
• German engineer Fritz Pfleumer created magnetic tape—the precursor to cassettes—in 1928.
  — Eleanor Cummins, Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024