"VHS" meaning in English

See VHS in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: VHSes [plural]
Etymology: Initialism of Vertical Helical Scan, later reinterpreted as Video Home System. Etymology templates: {{m|en|Vertical Helical Scan}} Vertical Helical Scan, {{m|en|Video Home System}} Video Home System Head templates: {{en-noun|~|es}} VHS (countable and uncountable, plural VHSes)
  1. A type of videotape originally developed by the Japanese company JVC. Wikipedia link: en:VHS Tags: countable, uncountable Derived forms: D-VHS, D-VHS-C, S-VHS, S-VHS-C, VHS-C Coordinate_terms: DTR, VCR, VTR, CC, DAT, DCC, DV8, MicroMV, MiniDV, Video8
    Sense id: en-VHS-en-noun-WTfsGr3d Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English genericized trademarks

Inflected forms

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