Intro

Origin

Abbreviated from introduction, from Latin, ultimately a compound from intrō ("I enter") – the abbreviation removes the second part of the compound, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros ("inner, what is inside"). The demoscene sense comes from the fact that they were originally prepended to pirated copies of computer games.

Full definition of intro

Noun

1. Short form of introduction.
2. (demoscene) A small demo produced to promote one's demogroup or for a competition.
• 1999, "brainpower
  digital artists", Win32 demos (on newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos)If the rules specify that the DLLs' size will be added to the 64K limit, there's not a lot of space to code an intro.
• 2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1Games, demos, intros. They were the same, this was the scene. The trend was that you cracked and made demos and intros.

Antonyms

• outro

Hyponyms

• (small audiovisual demo) 4ktro, cracktro, invitro

Anagrams

• nitro, trion

Verb

1. (informal, transitive) To introduce.----