digislate

English

Etymology

digi- +‎ slate

Noun

digislate (plural digislates)

1. (science fiction) A computer resembling a slate or tablet.
   • 2014, Pierce Brown, Red Rising:

     I have us make maps of our territory on digislates we found in a waterlogged cellar at the bottom of a ravine, […]

   • 2016, Tessa Elwood, Split the Sun:

     I used to borrow one of the inventory digislates with general network access, then slip up here to research.

2. (film) A clapperboard with a digital display.
   • 2003, Chris Jones, Guerilla Film Makers Movie Blueprint, page 318:

     A DigiSlate is a clapperboard with the ingenious addition of a digital timecode display (hours : minutes : seconds : frames).

   • 2010, Richard W. Kroon, A/V A to Z: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Media, Entertainment and Other Audiovisual Terms, page 207:

     A DigiSlate can be set to display either SMPTE or internal (real time) time code.