Meaning

noun a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing

noun a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight

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

originFrom Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).…

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