multimedia

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The use of several forms of media (sound, video, and text) combined to present an idea.

   The presentation relied on multimedia to keep the audience engaged throughout.

   Modern journalism increasingly blends multimedia into its online reporting.

   Note

   A compound built on a plural: multi- plus media, which is itself the plural of medium. The noun is still uncountable, so it takes a singular verb (multimedia is, not multimedia are) and has no plural of its own. Use it for the practice itself. For descriptive phrases such as a multimedia installation, use the adjective.

2. 2
   adjective

   Relating to the combined use of several forms of media, such as sound, video, and text.

   The artist's multimedia installation combined projected video with ambient sound.

   The course takes a multimedia approach, mixing written text with audio clips.

   Similarmultimodal

3. 3
   adjective

   Relating to an application that can combine media such as sound, video, and text into a single integrated package.

   The multimedia application bundles a video editor, an audio mixer, and text tools together.

   Developers built a multimedia framework that handles images, sound, and animation in one package.

   Note

   Here the word moves from the presentation to the software that builds it. In computing, a multimedia program or framework integrates audio, video, still images and text, and synchronizes and renders them through a common interface. Like the general adjective, it is not comparable: a package either is multimedia or is not. Nothing is ever more multimedia than something else.

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