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Wide-screen
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1. wide-screen
(motion pictures) projected on a screen with much greater width than height
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Wide-screen
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of or relating to a form of film projection or television broadcasting in which the screen has much greater width than height
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Wide-screen
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1.
designating or of a film made for projection on a screen much wider than it is high: usually
from a ratio of 1.66 to 1 up to 2.55 to 1
2.
designating, of, or designed for a similar format for video, with a ratio of 1.78 to 1 or more
a widescreen TV set
Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.