Screen

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Screen or Screens may refer to:

Arts

  • Screen printing or silkscreening, a printing method
  • Big screen, a nickname for motion pictures
  • Split screen (filmmaking), showing two or more images side by side
  • Stochastic screening and Halftone photographic screening, methods of simulating grays with one-color printing

Filtration and selection processes

  • Screening (economics), the process of identifying or selecting members of a population based on one or more selection criteria
  • Screening (biology), idem, on a scientific basis,
    • of which a genetic screen is a procedure to identify a particular kind of phenotype
    • the Irwin screen is a toxicological procedure
  • Sieve, a mesh used to separate fine particles from coarse ones
  • Mechanical screening, a unit operation in material handling which separates product into multiple grades by particle size

Media and music

  • "Screen", a song by Twenty One Pilots from Vessel
  • Screen International, a film magazine covering the international film markets
  • Screen (journal), a film and television studies journal published by Oxford University Press
  • Screen (magazine), a weekly entertainment magazine from India
  • The Screen (cinematheque), a theatre in Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
  • Screenonline, online film and television magazine produced by the British Film Institute
  • Screens (album), a 2009 album by Mint Chicks
  • Screen (Australian TV series), Australian television series on Foxtel Arts channel
  • "Screens", a song by Weezer from their 2021 album OK Human

Media display

  • Electronic visual display, a cathode ray tube or liquid crystal display (LCD)
  • Touchscreen, a display device that also takes input via embedded pressure sensors
  • Projection screen, a viewing surface
  • Display device, an output device for presentation of information in visual form
  • Computer monitor, a monitor for use with a computer
  • Television set, a device that combines a tuner, display, and loudspeakers

Barriers, separation or partitioning

  • Window screen, a plastic or wire mesh that covers a window opening
  • Screen door, a mesh, wire or plastic, that covers a door opening
  • Fire screen, a device to put in front of a fireplace
  • Windbreak of trees or shrubs
  • Windshield (windscreen), protects the driver of a vehicle
  • Folding screen, a piece of decorative furniture
  • Rainscreen, in building construction
  • Rood screen, a partition in a church which separates the chancel from the nave
  • Smoke screen, smoke released in order to mask the movement or location of military units
  • Parclose screen, a partition in a church, separate from the Rood screen

Software

  • GNU Screen, a computer program which multiplexes computer terminals
  • Another name for "dynpro" in ABAP programs
  • Screen (image blending), a blending method for digital images
  • Yahoo! Screen, a video streaming service

Sports

  • Screen (sports), when a player obstructs the vision or motion of another player
    • Screen (ice hockey), obstruction of a goaltender's view of the puck
  • Screen pass, a type of offensive play in American football

Other

See also

  • Screening (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Screen
  • All pages with titles containing Screen
  • Skreen, village in County Sligo, Ireland
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