superscreen

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

super- +‎ screen

Noun[edit]

superscreen (plural superscreens)

  1. A very large screen for showing films, sports events, etc.
    • 1971, Ronal G Poland, Nancy D Sanford, Adjustment psychology: a human value approach:
      That night they went to a superscreen movie.
    • 1977, John Francis Kreidl, Nicholas Ray:
      Attempting to win back the lost audiences who defected to the 21-inch screen, Hollywood held up the carrot of the superscreens of Cinerama and CinemaScope.
    • 1981, Budd Schulberg, Moving pictures, memories of a Hollywood prince:
      ...a dramatic technical innovation: the curtains on stage rolling back to reveal a superscreen more than twice as large as the standard 12 x 18.
    • 1995, Urban Land Institute, Reinventing real estate:
      ...a motion simulator ride based thematically on the movie RoboCop; a 360-degree cinema experience cum disco; and a superscreen theater.
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