touchscreen

or touch screen

[ tuhch-skreen ]

noun

1. 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.

touchscreen

/ tŭch′skrēn′ /

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of touchscreen¹

First recorded in 1970–75; touch + screen

Example Sentences

If your device has a touchscreen, here you can also adjust the visual feedback shown on the display when you tap it.

From Popular-Science

The 12-inch touchscreen is the largest in this class, and the hard-plastic surfaces and rubberized switch gear make things easy to clean.

From Washington Blade

Nowadays, most people will not even consider a phone that doesn’t have a touchscreen.

From Search Engine Land

Each seat has a touchscreen next to it where passengers can adjust the climate and monitor their route and arrival time.

From Singularity Hub 

You can easily draw no-go lines on your phone’s touchscreen using the Neato app that the vacuum will automatically learn and follow.

From Popular-Science

Instead of pushing the cup against a mechanical lever, users push a “button” on a touchscreen.

From The Daily Beast

In the 21st century, you also have to turn off the touchscreen to become human.

From The Daily Beast

If you can't see yourself doing much typing on a touchscreen, the iPad's keyboard will exceed your expectations.

From The Daily Beast

A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop's keyboard used to do.

From The Daily Beast

"We're in love," the reviewer said of the Storm's touchscreen keyboard.

From The Daily Beast

He takes my hand by the wrist and plants my palm on the touchscreen and a little ribbon of paper with zero-zero-one slides out.

From Project Gutenberg