screen saver

American  

Also screensaver

noun

Computers.

• screen savers
  plural

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.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• screen savers
  plural

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screen saver

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.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2025

Much of his current research uses digital stimuli of nature, such as a screen saver, to test a person’s emotions.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2023

Yes, your memory is accurate, although you have to go all the way back to Windows XP if you want the screen saver to display the file name.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2023

That has been her screen saver for more than a year now.

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor