- chat room
- noun Date: 1986 a real-time online interactive discussion group
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chat room
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chat room — ˈchat room noun [countable] COMPUTING a place on the Internet where several people are able to send and read messages about particular subjects: • A conversation about the case took place in the WBS Talk political chat room last week. * * * chat… … Financial and business terms
Chat-Room — Chat|room, Chat Room [ t̮ʃætru:m ], der; s, s [engl. chatroom, aus: chat ↑ (Chat) u. room = Raum] (EDV): Bereich im Internet, in dem (zu einem bestimmten Thema) gechattet wird … Universal-Lexikon
chat room — The basic unit of group discussion in internet chat systems. By joining a channel on the web, everything typed in is read by others on that channel. Practical Law Dictionary. Glossary of UK, US and international legal terms. www.practicallaw.com … Law dictionary
chat room — chat rooms N COUNT A chat room is a site on the Internet where people can exchange messages about a particular subject. [COMPUTING] … English dictionary
chat room — [n] interaction via computer data communication channel, live discussion, net event, room; concepts 349,770 … New thesaurus
chat room — n a place on the Internet where you can write messages to other people and receive messages back from them immediately, so that you can have a conversation while you are ↑online … Dictionary of contemporary English
chat room — chat ,room noun count an area on the Internet or a computer NETWORK where people can exchange messages ─ compare NEWSGROUP … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
chat room — chat′ room n. cmp cmp a branch of a computer system in which participants can engage in live discussions with one another … From formal English to slang
chat room — ► NOUN ▪ an area on the Internet or other computer network where users can communicate … English terms dictionary
chat room — n. a location, as on the Internet, in which various users can CHAT1 (vi. 2) informally with one another … English World dictionary
Chat room — For the 2002 film, see Chat Room (film). For the 2010 film, see Chatroom (film). Chat Rooms in PaltalkScene. The term chat room, or chatroom, is primarily used by mass media to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even… … Wikipedia
