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VIDEO DISPLAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does video display mean?
• VIDEO DISPLAY (noun)
The noun VIDEO DISPLAY has 1 sense:
1. an electronic device that represents information in visual form
Familiarity information: VIDEO DISPLAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An electronic device that represents information in visual form
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
display; video display
Hypernyms ("video display" is a kind of...):
electronic device (a device that accomplishes its purpose electronically)
Meronyms (parts of "video display"):
raster (the rectangular formation of parallel scanning lines that guide the electron beam on a television screen or a computer monitor)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "video display"):
caller ID (a small display that will show you the telephone number of the party calling you)
alphanumeric display; digital display (a display that gives the information in the form of characters (numbers or letters))
board; display board; display panel (a vertical surface on which information can be displayed to public view)
flat panel display; FPD (a type of video display that is thin and flat; commonly used in laptop computers)
monitor; monitoring device (display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor)
CRT screen; screen (the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube)
VDU; visual display unit ((British) British term for video display)
window ((computer science) a rectangular part of a computer screen that contains a display different from the rest of the screen)
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