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plasma screen

British

noun

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

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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

Models wore plates of television screens showing deep water fish in the ocean, and plasma screen visors beamed out growing chrysanthemums.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 25, 2022

I start yelling in the theater, so I prefer to watch films at home on a big plasma screen or with my projector.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2022

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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