bluescreen
bluescreen Lexical Profile
bluescreen Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A critical error screen displayed on a computer monitor (especially in Microsoft Windows operating systems) following a fatal system crash, characterized by white text on a solid blue background.
"A sudden hardware failure triggered a bluescreen right before I could save my document."
A visual effects technique in filmmaking and television production in which subjects are filmed in front of a uniform blue background that is later replaced with a different image or scene; also, the blue backdrop itself.
"The actors performed the entire spacewalk sequence in front of a massive bluescreen in the studio."
• verb
To suffer a fatal system error and display a blue error screen (of a computer).
"My laptop keeps bluescreening whenever I try to run the new graphics software."
To film or composite a subject using a blue background so that a different background image may be digitally inserted.
"The production team bluescreened the stunt performers and added the canyon scenery in post-production."