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split screen

The display of two or more sets of data on screen at the same time. It implies that one set of data can be manipulated independently of the other. This was a popular term with DOS applications and other character-based text screens. Today, a window implies the same thing.


split screen [′split ′skrēn]
(computer science)


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Features include 3x optical zoom, a split screen, seamless switchovers and a flexible gooseneck design.
For one thing, the whole film is told exclusively in split screen, with the actors - Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter - staying more or less on their respective sides, though director Canosa makes some allowances for movement.
Director Alan Brown deploys a split screen to monitor the halting alliance between gay high schooler Brad (Jay Gillespie) and Andy (David Rogers), the knight in tarnished armor who rescues Brad after he is brutally group-raped with a stick.
 
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