CRT SCREEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does CRT screen mean? 

• CRT SCREEN (noun)
  The noun CRT SCREEN has 1 sense:

1. the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube

  Familiarity information: CRT SCREEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRT SCREEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

CRT screen; screen

Hypernyms ("CRT screen" is a kind of...):

display; video display (an electronic device that represents information in visual form)

Meronyms (parts of "CRT screen"):

foreground ((computer science) a window for an active application)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "CRT screen"):

background; desktop; screen background ((computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear)

computer display; computer screen (a screen used to display the output of a computer to the user)

Holonyms ("CRT screen" is a part of...):

cathode-ray tube; CRT (a vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen)