color screen

Polychromatic visual panel

A color screen is a display capable of showing images in multiple colors rather than just black and white or monochrome.

The term distinguished early color monitors and televisions from their monochrome predecessors: The new model finally has a color screen.

Now that virtually all screens display color, the term appears mainly in historical contexts or specifications.

Related

displayPresentation for viewing
monitorDisplay or supervisor
LCDLowest shared fraction bottom
pixelSmallest display unit
pixel densityDots per inch onscreen

high definition · RGB · vivid · brightness · resolution · television · backlit · glow · blue light · hue · saturation · retina · OLED · graphics · image · visual · vibrant · palette

Categories

PDAsPDA, Palm Pilot, PalmPilot, handheld, digital organizer
Graphing CalculatorsTI-84, TI-83, TI-89, Texas Instruments, Casio
feature phonesfeature phone, flip phone, basic phone, clamshell phone, dumbphone

Opposites

chromatic capability

color screenmonochrome display

Screen using one color

green screen · monochrome · black-and-white

technological era

color screendumb terminal

Display relying on server

Family

color, screen, colour, colors, colours, colored, coloured, colorful, colourful

Familiarity: Top 200,000
Profile: Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G