Definitions

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  • noun A subsidiary screen making up part of a larger screen (especially the kind used for displaying computer output).

Etymologies

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sub- +‎ screen

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Examples

  • She clicked on the black subscreen on her monitor and Mulcahy saw a grainy image jerk into life, revealing a young woman in teetering heels standing outside an open doorway.

    The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

  • She clicked on another subscreen and a rougher, greyer, wide-angled image emerged of a girl—the same girl, if you looked hard enough—walking up the road towards the camera, swinging her handbag by its long straps.

    The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

  • He just had time to read the two-word message “hacked off” before the media player launched a black subscreen which stalled for a moment, then ran some good-quality CCTV footage of two people, a man and a woman, approaching each other on the street, stopping to chat, then climbing into an open-top sports car.

    The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

  • Refer to the map (on your radio subscreen) and enter the second pictoral code, sending power to box #2.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • Except…there was still that sixth subscreen, still dark.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • Courhig watched as the blank subscreen for that particular handler stayed blank.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • Courhig watched as the blank subscreen for that particular handler stayed blank.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • Except…there was still that sixth subscreen, still dark.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • Except…there was still that sixth subscreen, still dark.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • Courhig watched as the blank subscreen for that particular handler stayed blank.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

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