relay

n 1: the act of relaying something

2: current flowing in one circuit can switch on and off a

current in a second circuit [syn: {electrical relay}]

v 1: pass along; "Please relay the news to the villagers"

2: control or operate by relay

Replay

{Acorn Computers}' {full-motion video} system written by Roger

Wilson. Video and sound information are stored in compressed

form. Compression is relatively slow but decompression is

done in {real-time} with quality and {frame-rate} varying with

the processing power available, the size of the picture and

whether it appears in a {window} or uses the whole screen.

(1994-11-09)