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screenful

screenful

1 4.5
An amount of text or images that fills one screen
  • noun
  • /ˈskriːnˌfʊl/
: pantalla llena
  • He quickly scanned the screenful of data before making his decision.

Examples

  • - Do you feel screenful?

    C'mon C'mon (2021)

  • A large program may have a whole screenful of blocks, and you jump around a lot.

    Blog text (25)

  • - I feel screenful.

    C'mon C'mon (2021)

  • First, scrolling interfaces are not precluded from having the ability to jump a half or a full screenful at a time.

    Blog text (5)

  • Pac-Man chomping up screenfuls of information, computerfuls of data.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • A screenful of words flashed on a blue background, and then the first sentence: From the time she was six, Elise could hear a song once, then play it from memory, a memory inherited from her dead grandparents.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Debate: screenfuls of people thoughtfully and sometimes not so thoughtfully wrangling over the issues involved with the topic.

    Blog text (24)

  • And it does make the site harder to scan; it's disorienting to see only five story headlines on a screenful of my MacBook Air and have the page be so dominated by a single headline and image.

    Blog text (3)

  • The application displayed a screenful of text that explained how to complete the task.

  • After refreshing the page, I saw a screenful of new notifications waiting for me.

Surface Forms

screenful singular
screenfuls plural

Morphology

screenful = screen (transparent) = screen + ful

The noun denotes an amount that fills a screen and is directly formed by adding the productive suffix '-ful' meaning 'amount that fills'.

Etymology

Screenful comes from the word screen and the little part -ful, which means 'full of', like in cupful or handful. So a screenful is the amount of text, data, or images that fills one screen at a time.