English
Etymology
"Closed" originally indicated that such captions were by default not visible until activated (opened) by the viewer turning them on, in contrast to open captions which are embedded in the video itself, visible to all.
Noun
closed caption (plural closed captions)
- (television) Text which can be displayed on a television or other video screen with suitable equipment, usually a transcription or description of audio material.
- Synonym: CC (initialism)
- Coordinate term: open caption
Translations
text displayed on a screen with suitable equipment
- Cherokee: ᎠᏍᏚᏅᎩ ᎠᏂᏬᏂᏍᎬᎢ ᏕᎪᏪᎸᎢ (asdunvgi aniwonisgvi degowelvi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 隱藏字幕 / 隐藏字幕 (yǐncáng zìmù)
- Finnish: tekstitys (fi) sg, tekstitykset pl
- German: geschlossener Untertitel m, optional zuschaltbarer Untertitel m
- Hungarian: választható/bekapcsolható felirat
- Japanese: クローズドキャプション (kurōzudokyappushon)
- Portuguese: legenda oculta f (Brazil), legenda codificada f (Brazil), legendagem de áudio f (Portugal), legenda fechada f (Portugal), legenda de áudio f (Portugal)
- Russian: скрытые субтитры pl (skrytyje subtitry)
- Spanish: subtítulos (es) m pl, subtítulos descriptivos m pl, subtítulos para sordos m pl, subtítulos opcionales m pl
- Swedish: undertexter (sv) c pl
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