screensavery

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1. informalResembling a screensaver.

   You can play your iTunes music while watching those cool screensavery visualizers on your HDTV.

   2012, David Pogue, OS X Mountain Lion: The Missing Manual, Bejing […]: O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 494

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   Anyway, I haven't seen the pack around a lot, in fact I've only seen it in a Game Zone store, and even then it was tucked away from the other screensavery bits and pieces.

   1997 January 10, Andy, “B5 Screensaver, Wallpaper Thang”, in uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5 (Usenet)

   They're all very good, making their undigestibly fibrous dialogue ("The human infection will only continue to spread," "You are gambling with the lives of millions!", etc., etc.) seem like stuff humans might say, and reacting convincingly to digitally animated calamities that, save for a few money shots of the creatures, generally have a weightless, screensavery quality.

   2019 May 30, Chris Klimek, “You Won't Get Much Fire From 'Godzilla: King Of The Monsters'”, in NPR, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2021

   This remake injects some contemporary misfortune (humans despoil the water, we're told). It also packs on another 52 minutes and three new songs, trades zany for demure and swaps vast animated land- and seascapes for soundstagey sets and screensavery imagery.

   2023 May 24, Wesley Morris, “'The Little Mermaid' Review: Disney's Renovations Are Only Skin Deep”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2023