Player
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Player may refer to:
- Player (game) A player of a game is a participant therein. The term 'player' is used with this same meaning both in game theory and in ordinary recreational games, a participant in a game
- Player character A player character or playable character is a character in a video game or role playing game who is controlled or controllable by a player, and is typically a protagonist of the story told in the course of the game. A player character is a persona of the player who controls it. Player characters are often also metonymically called players. Some
- Player-coach A player-coach, in sports, is a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties. Such an individual may be called a player-manager in sports where the title "manager" is used instead. The term can be used to refer to both players who serve as head coaches , or as assistant coaches
- Player-manager
- Player (political)
- Player (dating), slang term for a (usually male, but also female) individual skilled at sexual seduction or a male that will date a female and then dump her almost immediately
Music
- Player (band), a 1970s rock band from Los Angeles, California
- Player (M. Pokora album), French singer M. Pokora's second album
- Player (Capsule album), an album by Japanese electronic music duo Capsule
Technology
- CD player A Compact Disc player , or CD player, is an electronic device that plays audio Compact Discs. CD players are often installed into home stereo systems, car audio systems, and personal computers. They are also manufactured as portable devices. Modern units support other formats in addition to CDs, such as DVDs, CD-ROMs with audio files and video CDs
- DVD player A DVD player is a device that plays discs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards, two different and incompatible standards
- Player piano A player piano is a self-playing piano, containing a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that operates the piano action via pre-programmed music perforated paper, or in rare instances, metallic rolls. The rise of the player piano grew with the rise of the mass-produced piano for the home in the late 19th and early 20th century (see Harvey
- Record player The phonograph, record player, or gramophone was the most common device for playing sound recordings from the late 1870s until the late 1980s
- Tape player A cassette deck is a type of tape recorder for playing or recording audio compact cassettes. A deck was formerly distinguished from a recorder as being part of a stereo component system, while a recorder had a self-contained power amplifier . While the two terms are often now used interchangeably, a recorder is typically thought of as a small low-
Computing
- Media player (application software) Media player is a term typically used to describe computer software for playing back multimedia files. Most software media players support an array of media formats, including both audio and video files, a piece of software tailored for playing back different forms of multimedia file formats
- Player (software) The Player Project is a project to create free software for research into robotics and sensor systems. Its components include the Player network server and Stage and Gazebo robot platform simulators. Although accurate statistics are hard to obtain, Player is probably the most-used robot interface in research and post-secondary education.[citation, a robot interface specification and software system
See also
- All pages beginning with "Player"
- All pages with titles containing "Player"
- Players (disambiguation)
- Play (disambiguation)
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Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:16:47 GMT+00:00
Washington Post (blog) If a player tests positive, he must be able to provide a prescription no more than 30 days old at the time of his positive test for the medicine. ...
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