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loading screen

loading screen noun: a graphical display shown while a program loads (e.g. from cassette tape or video games).

Noun

loading screen (plural loading screens)

  1. A graphical display shown while a program loads (e.g. from cassette tape or video games).
    • The color graphic loading screens are some of the best I've seen on a C64 and serve their purpose well — to distract the subscriber while the slow 1541 drive transfers the program into the C64's RAM.1986, Mike Cane, The Computer Phone Book: Guide to using online systems
    • So, as long as you don't mind the substantial lack of 'player involvement', and the strange purple-skinned people on the loading screen, Tie-Break is a neatly put-together and enjoyable game.1990, Adidas Championship Tie-Break (game review in Your Sinclair magazine issue 59, November 1990)

Forms of loading screen

pluralloading screens

Words formed from loading screen

  • loading screen tip

Questions about loading screen

What does loading screen mean?
Loading screen means a graphical display shown while a program loads (e.g. from cassette tape or video games).
What part of speech is loading screen?
Loading screen is a noun.
What is the plural of loading screen?
The plural of loading screen is loading screens.

Words near loading screen in the dictionary

  1. loading docks
  2. loading down
  3. loading gauge
  4. loading gauges
  5. loading out
  6. loading screen
  7. loading screens
  8. loading space
  9. loading spaces
  10. loading up
  11. loading up on

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