Synonym of Chinese wall (“information barrier protocol”)

plural of screen play

Rare form of screenplay.

When the image on a screen appears to horizontally "tear" in two due to lack of synchronization between the video feed and the display's refresh rate.

The digital recording, by software, of a moving image displayed upon a screen in order to allow manipulation and playback

One of a series of doors at a train or subway station, at the edge of a platform, that prevent access beyond the platform when there is no train to be boarded

(computing, informal) An error screen displayed by some operating systems, especially Microsoft Windows, after encountering an unrecoverable error which causes the system to shut down.

(nautical) A circular disc of plate glass, set into the screen of a ship's bridge and spun at high speed by an electric motor in heavy rain or snow; it offers a clear view forward.

A method of reproducing coloured artwork using a cut stencil attached to a stretched, fine-meshed silk screen

(biology) A screening technique for the rapid detection of recombinant bacteria in vector-based molecular cloning experiments. DNA of interest is ligated into a vector, which is then inserted into a host cell; these are grown in the presence of X-gal. Cells transformed with vectors containing recombinant DNA will produce white colonies; cells transformed with non-recombinant plasmids (i.e. only the vector) grow into blue colonies.