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noun

a type of thin, lightweight video display that uses liquid crystals or electroluminescence to reflect images.

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Also called flat panel, flat-panel display .

Origin of flat screen

First recorded in 1970–75

OTHER WORDS FROM flat screen

flat-screen, adjective

Words nearby flat screen

flat race, flat racing, flat-rolled, flats, flat-saw, flat screen, flat sennit, flat-share, flat silver, flat sour, flat spin

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How to use flat screen in a sentence

It will be sort of like having one of those digital photo frames, except instead of family and friends on a small, flat screen, who-knows-what will appear in 3D and larger than life.
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This stand can hold up to 64-inch flat screen televisions, it has a center drawer as well as two side shelves with slatted sliding doors.
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Luckily enough I have this dedicated flat that is just along from my house that I go to every day.
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There were stomachs, taut and flat, but also undulating bellies, soft and bloated from the breakfast buffet.
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The garrulous assistant to a fading screen siren in Clouds of Sils Maria.
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“JSwipe is currently under heavy load,” flashed across the screen, one night as a friend and I looked at it.
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A sad-faced orange Star of David flashed across the iPhone screen as we swiped left on “James” (not his real name).
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Among the Perpendicular additions to the church last named may be noted a very beautiful oaken rood-screen.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 4|Various
Why not have sought out the pure white lime-rocks of the flat country, or the grey granite of the hills?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
The fire had been heaped over with earth—to screen it from prying eyes, I suppose, while the good work went on.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Now, he chose a small table in a corner of the balcony, close to the glass screen.
Rosemary in Search of a Father|C. N. Williamson
Then the roof itself, with its gables and dormer windows, softly folded itself flat down upon the top of the house, out of sight.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl

British Dictionary definitions for flat screen

flatscreen

/ (ˈflætˌskriːn) /

noun

a slimline television set or computer monitor with a flat screen
(as modifier)a flatscreen television

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