threevee

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noun

A screen or television able to display a three-dimensional image.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounthreevee (countable and uncountable, plural threevees)

plural threevees · alternative 3V · alternative three-vee

  1. countableliteratureA screen or television able to display a three-dimensional image.

    The demon paused before answering, as though listening to an internal voice. Seen up close, he too was slightly blurred — like a threevee picture in the middle of a bad day for sunspots, Kin thought.

    1981, Terry Pratchett, Strata, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 157
    1 more example

    She loved to sit with me when three or four of us went to the Blue Sea, to the Bay of Lue, to threevees in the city, to musical shows, or just to eat iced meloncolion on the showy balconies of the comiche.

    2016, John Argo, Moon Berry Wine: A Far Future Science Fiction Novel, San Diego, C.A.: Clocktower Books, →ISBN, page 38

    Synonyms: tri-V, tri-vid, tri-D, trideo, tridim

  2. uncountableliteratureThree-dimensional television technology.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA screen or television able to display a three-dimensional image.

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Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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