Meanings
plural digislates
- literatureA computer resembling a slate or tablet.
I used to borrow one of the inventory digislates with general network access, then slip up here to research.
2016, Tessa Elwood, Split the Sun1 more example
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 - broadcastingA clapperboard with a digital display.
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 2071 more example
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
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