Definition of Screen off

1. Verb. Partition by means of a divider, such as a screen. "Screen off this part of the room"

Exact synonyms: Separate Off
Generic synonyms: Partition, Zone

Lexicographical Neighbors of Screen Off

screen actor
screen background
screen capture
screen captures
screen defense
screen door
screen font
screen memory
screen motion capture
screen name
screen off (current term)
screen out
screen printing
screen reader
screen saver
screen savers
screen test
screen time
screen wall
screen walls
screenable
screenager
screenagers
screenbound

Literary usage of Screen off

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1896)
"Now, though the metal window in Lenard's experiments was connected with the earth, and would, therefore, screen off from the outside of the tube any effect ..."

2. Trukese-English Dictionary by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1980)
"hindrance, screen, thing in the way; block, screen off, get in the way. ... block, screen off, get in of, ..."

3. Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism: Intended as a by Joseph John Thomson, James Clerk Maxwell (1893)
"One such method, which is very easily applied, is based on the way in which plates made of conductors screen off the action of rapidly alternating currents. ..."

4. Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism: Intended as a by Joseph John Thomson, James Clerk Maxwell (1893)
"If however instead of a metal plate we use a layer of an electrolyte, the conductivity of the electrolyte is not sufficient to screen off from the secondary ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1900)
"I regulated the water supply so that the motor ran at the rate of MA = Amyl acetate lamp ; B = Box to screen off light ; C = Aperture in B ; D = Optical ..."

6. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1890)
"By AM WORTHINGTON.—See Reports, p. 225. 7. On the Failure of Metal Sheets to screen off the Electrostatic ..."

7. Physical Optics by Robert Williams Wood (1911)
"If we were to screen off all of the wave except the first element, the illumination at P would be greater than that due to the whole wave, a surprising ..."

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