multi-ˈmedia, a.
[f. multi- + media2.]
Designating or pertaining to a form of artistic, educational, or commercial communication in which more than one medium is used. Hence as n.
| 1962 Times 26 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. xviii/4 The first prong is a multi-media publicity campaign to encourage school children..to obtain adequate educational qualifications. 1962 Listener 5 Apr. 603/3 Both Futurists and Dadaists had a keen interest in multi-media art, in breaking down the technical and formal self-sufficiency of the work of art. 1968 Sun (Baltimore) 4 July A. 16/3 The notes of one conference we attended a few weeks ago..show that speakers were using such terms..as..multi⁓media and multi-mode curriculum. 1970 Times 28 Apr. 7 Late night performances of the Military Tattoo and of the multimedia rock musical Stomp. 1970 D. Bergen in Americana Ann. 420 Multimedia information centers with print and audiovisual materials. 1971 Black Scholar Jan. 20/2 As originator of the practice of reading poetry to jazz, he not only stitched backwards and forward in his lineage and idiom, but wrought a new force in the now obscenely exaggerated concept of multi-media. 1974 News & Press (Darlington, S. Carolina) 25 Apr. 9/7 Hooser creates a multi-media effect that draws the viewer into the picture. |