Meanings
nounMP4 (plural MP4s)
plural MP4s
- abbreviationfile formatAbbreviation of MPEG-4 Part 14, a file format for playing music and videos.
Typically, the art object that gets NFT’d is a digital file — maybe a JPEG image or an MP4 video — that lives on some hard drive, and that looks or sounds precisely the way it would have in the decades before NFTs came along.
2022 March 3, Blake Gopnik, “One Year After Beeple, the NFT Has Changed Artists. Has It Changed Art?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2022
Translations
Chinese Mandarin MP4
- MP4short for MPEG-4 Part 14
Dutch mp4
- mp4short for MPEG-4 Part 14
Finnish MP4
- MP4short for MPEG-4 Part 14
French MP4
- MP4short for MPEG-4 Part 14
German MP4
- MP4short for MPEG-4 Part 14
Greek MP4
- MP4short for MPEG-4 Part 14
Japanese エムピーフォー, MP4 (MP4)
- エムピーフォー (emu-pī-fō)short for MPEG-4 Part 14
- MP4 (MP4)short for MPEG-4 Part 14
Korean 엠피포, MP4
- 엠피포 (empipo)short for MPEG-4 Part 14
- MP4short for MPEG-4 Part 14
Polish MP4
- MP4short for MPEG-4 Part 14
Portuguese MP4
- MP4short for MPEG-4 Part 14
Cite this entry
APA
MP4. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/MP4
MLA
“MP4.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/MP4. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “MP4,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/MP4.
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