video card

noun

: a circuit board in a computer system designed to generate output for the system's video display screen

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Asus, with its first BTF designs, solved for that with the introduction of a handful of BTF Edition video cards, like this TUF Gaming RTX 4070 Ti Super. John Burek, PC Magazine, 20 May 2025 Again, that's in real time on a standard, if high-end, consumer-grade video card. New Atlas, 16 Dec. 2024 Weitz highlighted Seth MacFarlane’s short three-minute tape that became Family Guy as well as a Christmas video card that turned into South Park. Peter White, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2024 Built to work only with video cards, the standard offered a faster connection, and could handle 32 bits of data. IEEE Spectrum, 18 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for video card

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First Known Use

1976, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of video card was in 1976

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“Video card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/video%20card. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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