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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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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Refer to the map (on your radio subscreen) and enter the second pictoral code, sending power to box #2.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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Except…there was still that sixth subscreen, still dark.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000
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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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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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Except…there was still that sixth subscreen, still dark.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000
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Except…there was still that sixth subscreen, still dark.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000
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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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