touchscreen

or touch screen

[ tuhch-skreen ]

/ ˈtʌtʃˌskrin /

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noun

a touch-sensitive display screen on a computer or other electronic device: touching different portions of the screen with a finger or stylus will cause the device to take actions determined by a computer program.

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Origin of touchscreen

First recorded in 1970–75; touch + screen

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How to use touchscreen in a sentence

Others range from a “ring-shaped cover for portable electronic device” to a “touch screen liquid crystal display.”
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“We think this will eventually be in every touch screen,” CEO and founder Craig Ciesla told The Daily Beast.
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By the way, the reports that he found a Wawa touch-screen menu “amazing” are misleading.
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The latest $400 model has a reading light and a touch screen that allows you to annotate while reading.
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But RIM will soon begin selling its first touch screen smartphone, the BlackBerry Storm, in a bid to rain on Apple's parade.
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British Dictionary definitions for touchscreen

touch screen

noun

a visual display unit screen that allows the user to give commands to the computer by touching parts of the screen instead of using the keyboard
(as modifier)a touch-screen computer

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

Scientific definitions for touchscreen

touchscreen

[ tŭch′skrēn′ ]

A monitor screen that can detect and respond to something, such as a finger or stylus, pressing on it.