slideware

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noun

Software that assists in the creation of digital slideshows.

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Meanings

nounslideware (uncountable)
  1. uncountableSoftware that assists in the creation of digital slideshows.

    While it belongs to the broader genre of slideware, Microsoft Powerpoint is perhaps the best example of software that has achieved that level of ubiquity.

    2011, Laurie E. Gries, Collin Gifford Brooke, “An Inconvenient Tool: Rethinking the Role of Slideware in the Writing Classroom”, in Steve Parks, Linda Adler-Kassner, editors, The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals 2010, Parlor Press LLC, →ISBN

Origin

From slide + -ware.

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APA

slideware. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slideware

MLA

“slideware.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slideware. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “slideware,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slideware.

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