flat panel display
noun
a slim electronic video display that uses LEDs or liquid crystals instead of cathode-ray tubes (CRTs); flat screen.
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flat-panel display
flat-panel displayA thin, often lightweight video display used in computer monitors and televisions as an alternative to the cathode-ray tube. Flat-panel displays often employ liquid crystals or electroluminescent materials such as light-emitting diodes.
flat panel display
American
[flat pan-uhl-di-splay]
/ ˈflæt ˈpæn əl dɪˌspleɪ /
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flat panel displays
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flat-panel display
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/ flăt′păn′əl /
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A thin, often lightweight video display used in computer monitors and televisions as an alternative to the cathode-ray tube. Flat-panel displays often employ liquid crystals or electroluminescent materials such as light-emitting diodes.
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Also called flat screen
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About 40% of sales from its lithography machines business, which combines semiconductor lithography and flat panel display lithography equipment, is generated in China.
From Reuters ● Mar. 31, 2023
"We don't make any more cathode ray tube-based products and every product we make has a flat panel display."
From The Verge ● Nov. 13, 2014
The analyst lowers his operating-profit forecasts for the South Korean flat-panel display maker by about 25% for 2026 and 11% for 2027.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
If you want to see something really crazy, it’s like the flat-panel display you and I are looking at each other on right now.
From The Verge ● Aug. 31, 2021
“A flat-panel display is not a small thing, with today’s TVs; it’s certainly not inexpensive to ship,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2017
The team produced a clamshell computer with an orange electroluminescent flat-panel display that was introduced as the Compass.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2016
But falling prices for both flat-panel display screens and computer chips that require little energy have made lap-size computers affordable.
From Time Magazine Archive
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