screen saver

Also screen·sav·er

noun

Computers.

1. a program that displays a constantly shifting pattern on a screen when the computer is idle, originally used to prevent damage to the screen through continuous display of the same image but now used primarily for decoration.

Example Sentences

Rosner’s imagery is abstract and often looks like the computer graphics you might choose for a screen saver, but better, brilliantly colored and alive.

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The scoreboard might as well have switched to a screen saver.

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Someone describes it as like being inside a screen saver.

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Apart from that, the broadcast was watchable, like a handsome screen saver, without being interesting in any of the ways the announcer or producers promised.

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His smartphone’s screen saver flashed a photo of his smiling teenage daughter, still living in North Korea.

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