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telescreen

Word definitions for telescreen in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context science fiction English) A screen for broadcasting television or similar media.

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Telescreens are fictional devices which operate as both televisions and security cameras . They feature in George Orwell 's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four as well as all film adaptations of the novel. In the novel and its adaptations, telescreens are used by ...

Usage examples of telescreen.

It was, alas, easy enough in the late twenty-fifth century to establish electronic identities whose telescreen appearances could be wholly maintained by silver-level sims.

Then he wanted to see the letter, and when I gave it to him, he took it over to a telescreen booth, and drew the curtains.

Baldy kept his eyes glued to the telescreen, manipulating what seemed like a dozen dials at once.

On a side table, next to the massive desk, was a compute terminal, including a telescreen readout.

Maybe there are still a few patches clear of the Green Blight but the telescreen has now been empty for the last six days and there is no sound from the ancient radio which I found in an antique shop just before I and Lukachevski immured ourselves here.

As a concession to die 21st Century, Carteret had installed a video pickup and a telescreen attachment to go with his phone.

They had to shove their way through a mass of people gathered around a public telescreen in the center of the square.

And, crossing back to the telescreen bank, he found his steps becoming disturbingly heavier.

Wellford settled back in his seat and swung the telescreen on its axis so they could both look at it.

As the car rose, he reached out and turned on and adjusted the telescreen for the underview.

Ten to one, radio and telescreen signals would be transmitted to that from below, and then probably picked up and rebroadcast from a relay station on one or another of the high buttes in the neighborhood.

This time it was the automatic signal which told her that Murray had activated the telescreen in his room.

But when Everett moved closer, curious to see the drawing, the televangelist sensed the attention and turned its telescreen face.

The televangelist shook its head, doubly, the robot moving the telescreen from side to side while the video image of the old preacher pursed his lips and closed his eyes and shook his head sorrowfully.

Further away, two of them faced a flickering telescreen, watching some faraway sporting competition.