digislate

noun — 2 senses

digislate

noun

Etymology From digi- + slate.

1

Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction A computer resembling a slate or tablet.

  • I have us make maps of our territory on digislates we found in a waterlogged cellar at the bottom of a ravine, […]2014, Pierce Brown, Red Rising:
  • I used to borrow one of the inventory digislates with general network access, then slip up here to research.2016, Tessa Elwood, Split the Sun:
2

Broadcasting, Film, Media, Television A clapperboard with a digital display.

  • A DigiSlate is a clapperboard with the ingenious addition of a digital timecode display (hours : minutes : seconds : frames).2003, Chris Jones, The Guerilla^([sic]) Film Makers Movie Blueprint, page 318:
  • A DigiSlate can be set to display either SMPTE or internal (real time) time code.2010, Richard W. Kroon, A/V A to Z: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Media, Entertainment and Other Audiovisual Terms, page 207:

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