screen saver
noun
: a computer program that usually displays various images on the screen of a computer that is on but not in use
Examples of screen saver in a Sentence
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But this open-plan apartment is incredibly strange in a postapocalyptic world with a talking air conditioner controlled by a motion detector, a Roomba on a timer, and a desktop computer running the Windows 3D Pipes screen saver.
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Leah Marilla Thomas, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
Soon, Hubble images, each more magnificent than the last, became screen savers and desktop wallpaper on the computers of people who had never before found reason to celebrate, however quietly, Earth’s place in the universe.
—Neil Degrasse Tyson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2012
And Francine Turner looked at her son’s face on her phone’s screen saver.
—Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 24 May 2024
Transitioning into a screen saver, your apps recede, and the screen either fades to black (for pre-Sonoma screen savers) or dissolves to the screen saver video.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2023
Wooster says that another tip for protecting your OLED investment is to stick to operating systems with features like dark mode and active screen savers.
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2023
Apart from that, the broadcast was watchable, like a handsome screen saver, without being interesting in any of the ways the announcer or producers promised.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
Think of dreaming like a computer screen saver that is set to go off every 90 minutes—except that instead of protecting against frozen images, dreams prevent the visual cortex from being usurped by other functions.
—Roberta McLain, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2023
In a 2006 dispatch from Lebanon, Robin Wright, then a Washington Post reporter who visited Nasrallah in Beirut, wrote that Nasrallah’s face was displayed there on computer screen savers, posters and keychains.
—Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
Leah Marilla Thomas, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
Soon, Hubble images, each more magnificent than the last, became screen savers and desktop wallpaper on the computers of people who had never before found reason to celebrate, however quietly, Earth’s place in the universe.
—Neil Degrasse Tyson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2012
And Francine Turner looked at her son’s face on her phone’s screen saver.
—Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 24 May 2024
Transitioning into a screen saver, your apps recede, and the screen either fades to black (for pre-Sonoma screen savers) or dissolves to the screen saver video.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2023
Wooster says that another tip for protecting your OLED investment is to stick to operating systems with features like dark mode and active screen savers.
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2023
Apart from that, the broadcast was watchable, like a handsome screen saver, without being interesting in any of the ways the announcer or producers promised.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
Think of dreaming like a computer screen saver that is set to go off every 90 minutes—except that instead of protecting against frozen images, dreams prevent the visual cortex from being usurped by other functions.
—Roberta McLain, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2023
In a 2006 dispatch from Lebanon, Robin Wright, then a Washington Post reporter who visited Nasrallah in Beirut, wrote that Nasrallah’s face was displayed there on computer screen savers, posters and keychains.
—Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
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“Screen saver.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/screen%20saver. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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