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écran bleu — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • blue screen noun A blue backdrop used in film and TV production for chroma-key compositing — historically the original chroma-key colour before green became the broadcast standard.

Senses

écran bleu is used for these senses in English:

  • blue screen (computing) Ellipsis of blue screen of death.

blue screen — full definition

  1. noun A blue backdrop used in film and TV production for chroma-key compositing — historically the original chroma-key colour before green became the broadcast standard.
  2. noun Short for "Blue Screen of Death" (BSOD) — a critical error screen displayed by Windows when the operating system encounters a fault it cannot recover from.