split screen

noun

1. Also called composite shot. Movies, Television.,  a type of process photography in which two or more shots are juxtaposed and projected simultaneously on the screen.

2. Computers.,  a mode of operation that uses windows to enable simultaneous viewing of two or more displays on the same screen.

Example Sentences

Afterward, I realized I’d been a split‑screen viewer.

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That is a fascinating split screen between Jackson and Sotomayor.

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Huq builds on the work of a Jewish labor lawyer named Ernst Fraenkel who fled Nazi Germany in 1938 and later published the book The Dual State, which helps explain the split screen in which Americans are suspended between one world in which the law proceeds as usual while disfavored minorities experience a frightening rule by fiat.

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Erivo remembers the day on set when Johnson showed her the split screen of all the characters together.

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The Tony Award nominations, announced Thursday morning in New York, reflect the split screen reality of a Broadway season divided by mavericks and mega-stars.

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