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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The customers who would come into the restaurant would give my parents computers, video cards, this is in the mid '90s, and software. Zoë Schiffer Manisha Krishnan, Wired News, 17 Dec. 2025 Because CPUs and discrete video cards complete different tasks using their own RAM, these pools of memory are treated separately by the system. Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 27 June 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 See All Example Sentences for video card

Word History

First Known Use

1976, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
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 31 Dec. 2025.

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