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fullscreen

fullscreen is the alternative form of full screen.

Meaning of full screen

Adjective

full screen (not comparable)

  1. Of a window occupying all the available display surface of a screen.
    • Most computer games are played in full screen mode.

Verb

fullscreen (third-person singular simple present fullscreens, present participle fullscreening, simple past and past participle fullscreened)

  1. To make a window occupy the entire screen.

Forms of fullscreen

third-person singular presentfullscreens
present participlefullscreening
past participlefullscreened
pastfullscreened

Origin of fullscreen

From full + screen.

Words formed from fullscreen

Questions about fullscreen

What does fullscreen mean?
Fullscreen means to make a window occupy the entire screen.
What is fullscreen the alternative form of?
Fullscreen is the alternative form of full screen.
What part of speech is fullscreen?
Fullscreen is a verb.
What is the past tense of fullscreen?
The past tense of fullscreen is fullscreened.

Words near fullscreen in the dictionary

  1. fullness of time
  2. fullnesses
  3. fullpowered
  4. fulls
  5. fullscale
  6. fullscreen
  7. fullscreened
  8. fullscreening
  9. fullscreens
  10. fullset
  11. fullsets

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fullscreen (page history and authors); full screen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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