split screen

noun

1. Also called composite shot. Movies, Television.,  a type of process photography in which two or more shots are juxtaposed and projected simultaneously on the screen.

2. Computers.,  a mode of operation that uses windows to enable simultaneous viewing of two or more displays on the same screen.

Example Sentences

The remake, titled Halo: Campaign Evolved, will support the game’s original two-player split screen experience on console as well as allow up to four players across Xbox, PC and PlayStation 5, according to a blog post on Xbox’s website.

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We should not lose sight, however, of the other side of the split screen.

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Afterward, I realized I’d been a split‑screen viewer.

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That is a fascinating split screen between Jackson and Sotomayor.

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Huq builds on the work of a Jewish labor lawyer named Ernst Fraenkel who fled Nazi Germany in 1938 and later published the book The Dual State, which helps explain the split screen in which Americans are suspended between one world in which the law proceeds as usual while disfavored minorities experience a frightening rule by fiat.

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