| 释义 |
viewscreen, n. orig. and chiefly Science Fiction.
Brit. |ˈvjuːskriːn|, U.S. |ˈvjuˌskrin|
[‹ view v. + screen n.1]
A television or similar display screen for viewing images.
1945Dixon (Illinois) Evening Tel. 9 May 6/5 (cartoon caption) Chaos reigns in the time-machine laboratory. Wonmug has been seized by a dinosaur he had brought into range on the view-screen of his newly invented area-control unit. 1969Science 24 Oct. 455/2 (advt.) Telescope for observing infrared emission... Resolves at least 5.5 minutes through focusing eye-piece on viewscreen of its green-emitting image converter. 1974U. K. Le Guin Dispossessed (1975) i. 14 On the viewscreen the brilliant curve of Urras hung still against black space. 1992B. Landon Aesthetics of Ambivalence i. i. 15 What the movie supplies is an image—that of a rapidly receding earth on the viewscreen of Exeter's flying saucer. 2000Stuff Dec. 88/1 The viewscreen's titchy but all the standard recording and editing goodies are here. |