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screen, in architecture, partition or enclosure not extending to the ceiling; usually a structure in stone, wood, or metal. It frequently serves to mark the boundaries of portions of churches and cathedrals. The choir screen or chancel screen, the most usual form, separates the choir or chancel from the body of the church. In many medieval cathedrals the choir screen was a richly decorated structure of pierced stonework, often with sculpture. The screens of the cathedrals of Chartres and Albi in France and of York, Lincoln, and Durham in England are especially noteworthy. Many English parish churches contain fine screens of carved and painted wood. In the basilican churches of Italy, such as St. Mark's, Venice, the chancel front was often marked by an elaborate inlaid marble parapet wall. With the coming of the Renaissance the constructing of chancel screens became rare except in Spain, where rejas of ironwork or bronze were extensively employed (see grille and rejería). In Greek Christian churches, the choir screen takes the form of a solid partition, the iconostasis, decorated with holy images (whence its name) and usually provided with three doors. It entirely separates the sanctuary from the body of the church and conceals from the congregation the altar and the celebration of Mass. The rood screen is a more elaborate form of choir screen that bears the rood or crucifix. A jube is a choir screen equipped with balconies for reading or preaching. A reredos is a wall or screen behind the high altar. As an article of furniture, the folding screen is of great antiquity, dating in China from the 2d cent. B.C. Widely used to adorn palaces and mansions, the screens of China and Japan were often gorgeous conceptions with carved wood frames, their panels of rich textiles or inlaid with jade and precious metals. The use of the folding screen, often showing East Asian influences in its construction, materials, and design, has continued to the present day.

Bibliography

See F. Bond, Screens and Galleries in English Churches (1908); A. Vallance, English Church Screens (1936).

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screen

The display area of a computer monitor or TV set. The terms "screen," "terminal" and "monitor" are used synonymously, although technically, the screen is only the visual display part of a monitor or terminal. See CRT and flat panel display.

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screen

1. a decorated partition, esp in a church around the choir

2. the wide end of a cathode-ray tube, esp in a television set, on which a visible image is formed

3. a white or silvered surface, usually fabric, placed in front of a projector to receive the enlarged image of a film or of slides

4. the screen the film industry or films collectively

5. Photog a plate of ground glass in some types of camera on which the image of a subject is focused before being photographed

6. Psychoanal anything that prevents a person from realizing his true feelings about someone or something

7. Electronics See screen grid

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screen [skrēn]

(computer science)

To make a preliminary selection from a set of entities, selection criteria being based on a given set of rules or conditions.

(electronics)

The surface on which a television, radar, x-ray, or cathode-ray oscilloscope image is made visible for viewing; it may be a fluorescent screen with a phosphor layer that converts the energy of an electron beam to visible light, or a translucent or opaque screen on which the optical image is projected. Also known as viewing screen.

screen grid

(electromagnetism)

Metal partition or shield which isolates a device from external magnetic or electric fields.

(engineering)

A large sieve of suitably mounted wire cloth, grate bars, or perforated sheet iron used to sort rock, ore, or aggregate according to size.

A covering to give physical protection from light, noise, heat, or flying particles.

A filter medium for liquid-solid separation.

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screen - 1. A generic term for a display device that shows text and/or images on a roughly flat rectangular surface. The most common type is usually refered to as a "monitor" and is based on a cathode-ray tube, though flat panel displays have, since around 2000, become increasingly competitive in price and performance.