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widescreen

British  
/ ˈwaɪdˌskriːn /

adjective

  1. of or relating to a form of film projection or television broadcasting in which the screen has much greater width than height

"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

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Spread across the sculpted dash contours is an extra widescreen display, combining the driver information center and center touch-screen functions, its field of crisply animated icons and graphics navigated with the usual swipes and taps.

From The Wall Street Journal May 16, 2026

Earlier this month, Google announced that its Photos app would be accessible on Samsung’s smart TVs, letting you display your images easily in widescreen instead of forcing you to project them from your phone.

From Slate May 3, 2026

But Courage is as interested in character as she is in her widescreen setting.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 27, 2025

Day’s 2015 debut album had a reverberant, widescreen, retro sound.

From New York Times May 10, 2024

And hundreds of video games, each one the size of a widescreen TV Basically, you name it, this place had it.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

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