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Multimodal vs Multimedia - What's the difference?

multimodal | multimedia |

As adjectives the difference between multimodal and multimedia

is that multimodal is having, or employing multiple modes while multimedia is of, or relating to this combined use of media.

As a noun multimedia is

the use of different media to convey information; text together with audio, graphics and animation, often packaged on CD-ROM with links to the Internet.

multimodal

English

Alternative forms

*multi-modal

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having, or employing multiple modes

    • multimedia

    English

    Pronunciation

    * *

    Noun

    (wikipedia multimedia) (en-plural noun)
  • (plurale tantum) the use of different media to convey information; text together with audio, graphics and animation, often packaged on CD-ROM with links to the Internet

    • See also

    * hypermedia

    Adjective

    (-)
  • of, or relating to this combined use of media
  • (computing) of, or relating to an application that can combine such media into an integrated package