When you play back a tape or film, you listen to the sounds or watch the pictures after recording them. He bought an answering machine that plays back his messages when he calls Ted might benefit from hearing his own voice recorded and played back I played the tape back. see also playback
reproduce (a recording) on a recorder; "The lawyers played back the conversation to show that their client was innocent"
The playing of music or special sound effects during the shooting of the scene The sound will be re-recorded later in the editing suites This technique is often used to keep dancers and singers in time with the music while they are acting
The playback of a tape is the operation of playing it on a machine in order to listen to the sound or watch the pictures recorded on it. I heard a playback of one of the tapes