A window screen is a wire mesh that covers a window opening to keep out insects even when the window is open.
Screen is also a synonym for film or movie as in the expression "Silver Screen" or the Screen Actors Guild, or as a verb as in "the movie was recently screened".
A screen is also a viewing surface, such as a white surface (of cloth, or a wall) for slide and film projection, or the viewing surface of a cathode ray tube or liquid crystal display (LCD). See display device.
A screen can be a transportable or permanently mounted panel or connected series of panels intended to obscure or hide the space behind it, used for visual privacy.
In naval ship formations, a screen of small, fast ships (such as destroyers) is used to protect larger ships such as battleships and aircraft carriers from attack by similar ships, torpedo boats or submarines. The objective of the screening ships is to destroy attackers before they can approch within torpedo range of the larger ships.
Screen-printing, or Silk-Screening is a method of printing and a screen is a piece of equipment used in this process.
The verb screen is to examine something for defects or dangers.
A genetic screen in geneticsGenetics is the science of genes, heredity, and the variation of organisms. Humans began applying knowledge of genetics in prehistory with the domestication and breeding of plants and animals. In modern research, genetics provides important tools in the i is a procedure or test to identify and select individuals that possess a particular kind of phenotypeThe phenotype of an individual organism is either its total physical appearance and constitution, or a specific manifestation of a trait, such as size or eye color, that varies between individuals. Phenotype is determined to some extent by genotype, or by
In a telecommunications, computingOriginally, the word computing was synonymous with counting and calculating, and a computer was a person who computes. Since the advent of the electronic computer, it has come to also mean the operation and usage of these machines, the electrical processe, or data processingData processing is any process that converts data into information. The processing is usually assumed to be automated and running on an a personal computer or other information system. In this context data is defined as a collection of numbers or charactesystemFor the Macintosh operating system, which was called System up to version 7. 5, see Mac OS. A system is an assemblage of inter-related elements comprising a unified whole. From the Latin and Greek, the term "system" meant to combine, to set up, to place t, to examine entities that are being processed to determine their suitability for further processing.
It can also describe a nonferrous metallicFor alternative meanings see metal (disambiguation). In chemistry, a metal is an element that readily forms cations and has metallic bonds, and it is sometimes said that it is similar to a cation in a cloud of electrons. The metals are one of the three gr mesh used to provide electromagnetic shielding.
Screening can be to reduce undesired electromagnetic signals and noise by enclosing devices in electrostatic or electromagnetic shields.
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