Screen

The term screen has a number of meanings:

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• A screen can be a transportable or permanently mounted panel or connected series of panels intended to obscure or hide the space behind it, used for visual privacy. A screen can also provide physical protection.
• A window screen is a wire mesh that covers a window opening to keep out insects even when the window is open.
• A windscreen or windshield protects the driver of a vehicle from rain, insects and airborne debris.
• In naval ship formations, a screen of small, fast ships (such as destroyers) is used to protect larger ships such as battleships and aircraft carriers from attack by similar ships, torpedo boats or submarines. The objective of the screening ships is to destroy attackers before they can approach within torpedo range of the larger ships.
• Screen-printing, Silk-screening or Serigraphy is a method of printing and a screen is a piece of equipment used in this process.
• Screen can also describe a nonferrous metallic mesh used to provide electromagnetic shielding.
• A screen can mean a sieve.
• A screen is also a viewing surface, such as a white surface (of cloth, or a wall) for slide and film projection, or the viewing surface of a cathode ray tube or liquid crystal display (LCD). See display device.
• Screen is also a synonym for film or movie as in the expression "Silver Screen" or the Screen Actors Guild, or as a verb as in "the movie was recently screened".
• Screen is a journal of film and television studies published by Oxford University Press.
• Another word for a screenshot.
• GNU Screen is a computer program which multiplexes computer terminals.
• The verb screen is to examine something for defects or dangers.
• A genetic screen in genetics is a procedure or test to identify and select individuals that possess a particular kind of phenotype.
• In a telecommunications, computing, or data processing system, to examine entities that are being processed to determine their suitability for further processing.
• The verb screen can also mean to enclose, shield or protect something with another object or material.
• Screen (sports) (verb or noun) : when a player obstructs the vision of an opposing player.
• Screening can mean to reduce undesired electromagnetic signals and noise by enclosing devices in electrostatic or electromagnetic shields.