green screen
[ green-skreen ]
/ ˈgrin ˌskrin /
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noun Movies, Television.
an electronic special-effects system, commonly used in television weather forecast segments, that isolates and removes a static plain green background from the live foreground shot so that the background can be filled or replaced with another image or video in a composite with the foreground.
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See also blue screen, chroma key.
Origin of green screen
First recorded in 1980–85
Words nearby green screen
greensand, greensand process, Greensboro, Greensburg, greenschist, green screen, green sea, greens fee, greenshank, greensickness, greenskeeper
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