MP4

English

Noun

MP4 (plural MP4s)

  1. (file format) Abbreviation of MPEG-4 Part 14, a file format for playing music and videos.
    • 2022 March 3, Blake Gopnik, “One Year After Beeple, the NFT Has Changed Artists. Has It Changed Art?”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 3 March 2022:
      Typically, the art object that gets NFT’d is a digital file — maybe a JPEG image or an MP4 video — that lives on some hard drive, and that looks or sounds precisely the way it would have in the decades before NFTs came along.

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Chinese

Etymology

Partial calque of English MP4. From English MP4 + (, “four”).

Pronunciation


Noun

MP4

  1. MP4
  2. short for MP4播放器 (áimu-pì-sì bōfàngqì)
  • MP3 (áimu-pì-sān)