telescreen
English edit
Etymology edit
From tele- + screen, from television. Popularized by George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), in which they are used for government surveillance of citizens.
Noun edit
telescreen (plural telescreens)
- (science fiction) A screen for broadcasting television or similar media.
- 1973, Robert Theobald, Stephanie Mills, The failure of success: ecological values vs. economic myths:
- Too many millions of people, watching their telescreens, had seen his unpardonable arrogance.
- 2002, Teresa Plowright, Dreams of an Unseen Planet:
- She pushed buttons at a new, small oval kind of telescreen, quickly gathering together the high-level authorizations it had taken hours of preparation to collect.
Translations edit
screen for broadcasting
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