screenscape

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noun

The view offered by a screen display; its arrangement of visual elements.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounscreenscape (plural screenscapes)

plural screenscapes

  1. The view offered by a screen display; its arrangement of visual elements.

    The words have a spatial component in that they enter the screen spinning, and settle in a particular part of the screenscape, but their essential forward thrust remains sequential.

    2007, Margaret Mackey, Mapping recreational literacies: contemporary adults at play, page 119

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APA

screenscape. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/screenscape

MLA

“screenscape.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/screenscape. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “screenscape,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/screenscape.

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