dat
/dæt/
noun
- A digital audio tape, a magnetic tape format used for high-quality sound recording and storage.
- He transferred the concert from a DAT to a digital file.
- Many musicians switched from DAT to hard drive recording in the 2000s.
- The studio still uses a DAT to archive old recordings.
abbreviation
- Short for 'digital audio tape' or 'digital audio tape recorder'.
- The DAT player needs new heads.
- We found a box of old DATs in the basement.
- She labeled the DAT with the date and track list.