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green screen

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green screen

A computer terminal that displays green characters on a dark background. Widely used with mainframes and minicomputer systems, the green screen has mostly given way to the Windows, Mac or Motif graphical user interface.



From Green Screen to the Web
Computer Associates' Advantage Integration Server transforms legacy applications (top) into graphics-based documents (bottom) that can be accessed via a Web browser. (Screen examples courtesy of Computer Associates International, Inc.)



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He glanced around--at the blankets bowered in a green screen and waiting, at the campfire and the blackened, battered coffee pot, at the well-worn hatchet, half buried in a tree trunk, and lastly at Saxon.
The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context
One crawled through tight-locked briers and branches, and found oneself on the very edge, peering out and down through a green screen.
The Iron Heel by London, Jack View in context
With which words she hurried into the house, as if to shake off the responsibility of my appearance; and left me standing at the garden-gate, looking disconsolately over the top of it towards the parlour window, where a muslin curtain partly undrawn in the middle, a large round green screen or fan fastened on to the windowsill, a small table, and a great chair, suggested to me that my aunt might be at that moment seated in awful state.
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