VIDEO DISPLAY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

An electronic device that represents information in visual form

Synonyms:

display; video display

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("video display" is a kind of...):

electronic device (a device that accomplishes its purpose electronically)

Meronyms (parts of "video display"):

raster (the rectangular formation of parallel scanning lines that guide the electron beam on a television screen or a computer monitor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "video display"):

caller ID (a small display that will show you the telephone number of the party calling you)

alphanumeric display; digital display (a display that gives the information in the form of characters (numbers or letters))

board; display board; display panel (a vertical surface on which information can be displayed to public view)

flat panel display; FPD (a type of video display that is thin and flat; commonly used in laptop computers)

monitor; monitoring device (display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor)

CRT screen; screen (the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube)

VDU; visual display unit ((British) British term for video display)

window ((computer science) a rectangular part of a computer screen that contains a display different from the rest of the screen)