Crossword clues for screensaver
screensaver
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context software English) A computer program that displays aesthetic patterns or images when the computer is not being used. 2 The background picture of a computer screen. n. 1 (context software English) A computer program that displays aesthetic patterns or images when the computer is not being used. 2 The background picture of a computer screen.
Wikipedia
A screensaver (or screen saver) is a computer program that blanks the screen or fills it with moving images or patterns when the computer is not in use. Initially designed to prevent phosphor burn-in on CRT and plasma computer monitors (hence the name), screensavers are now used primarily for entertainment, security or to display system status information.
Decades before the first computers using this technology were invented, Robert A. Heinlein gave an example of how they might be used in his novel Stranger In A Strange Land (1961):
Many modern television operating systems, media players and other digital entertainment systems include optional screensavers.
Some screensavers also offer additional functions like automated workstation password protection during inactivity (i.e., probably absent) user or disk scan with installed antivirus software.
Usage examples of "screensaver".
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Caleb was hanging between two spring-resistors in the gym, the display screens in the central cabin were dancing with their elegant geometric screensaver patterns, the stars outside burned with their distant fire, Vega 4 was a ruddy glow before her, someone was chattering between Vega 4.