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wide-screen

American

[wahyd-skreen] / ˈwaɪdˈskrin /

adjective

of, noting, or pertaining to motion pictures projected on a screen having greater width than height, usually in a ratio of 1 to 2.5.

Etymology

Origin of wide-screen

First recorded in 1950–55

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wide-screen

Mickey Mouse and his friends converse on a wide-screen television in the lounge.

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2025

This is the same aspect ratio used since the standardization of sound in film, until the wide-screen formats were introduced in the 1950s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

The dark side of human nature is live-streaming in Technicolor, playing on every wide-screen TV and on full display in theaters across the United States this summer.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2022

The iPod looms large over the iPhone’s announcement — so much so that the first thing Steve Jobs says about the smartphone is that it’s “a wide-screen iPod with touch controls.”

From The Verge ● May 11, 2022

I could almost imagine a close-up of my face, projected wide-screen.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli

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