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plasma screen

British  

noun

  1. a type of flat screen on a television or visual display unit in which the image is created by electric current passing through many gas-filled cells

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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I'm not just talking like, oh, you know, a plasma screen is too expensive.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2025

In some scenes, the spirit is a poltergeist nuisance, spilling glasses and knocking down shelves; in others, it’s confoundingly trapped behind some sort of plasma screen.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

The woman also sent a text to a friend saying that since she had filed suit, they would return their TV and upgrade to a plasma screen.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2016

It's no secret that many of the young comics performing up in Edinburgh are doing so with the ambition of making the leap quickly from stage to plasma screen.

From The Guardian • Aug. 26, 2011

I didn’t have a plasma screen, because the costumes budget wasn’t big enough, but from underneath the skull I could look around without anyone noticing.

From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer

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