closed captioning

English

Noun

closed captioning (uncountable)

1. The display of text on a television or video screen, usually a transcription of the audio portion of a program as it occurs (either verbatim or in edited form), most frequently used by the deaf and language learners. Closed captions are encoded invisibly, and displayed by a decoder.

   Synonym: CC

Alternative forms

• close captioning

Coordinate terms

• audio description
• described video

Derived terms

• CC

Related terms

• captioning
• closed caption
• open captioning