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screen-saver

screen-saver is the alternative spelling of screensaver.

Meaning of screensaver

Noun

screensaver (plural screensavers)

  1. A computer program that displays aesthetic patterns or images when the computer is not being used, originally intended to prevent screenburn.
    • I configured my screensaver to appear after only two minutes, because I enjoyed watching it so much.
  2. (proscribed) The background picture of a computer, smartphone, or similar mobile device.
    • But she changed her screensaver, which was a photo of Julian eating scrambled eggs—he was smiling, holding his fork away from himself, as if he were waving the eggs at her—and replaced it with a photo of Olivia, looking up from her desk […]2008, Joshua Henkin, Matrimony, Vintage, →ISBN, page 163

Forms of screen-saver

pluralscreen-savers

Questions about screen-saver

What is screen-saver the alternative spelling of?
Screen-saver is the alternative spelling of screensaver.

Words near screen-saver in the dictionary

  1. screen-printed
  2. screen-printing
  3. screen-prints
  4. screen-reader
  5. screen-readers
  6. screen-saver
  7. screen-savers
  8. screen-scrape
  9. screen-scraped
  10. screen-scraper
  11. screen-scrapers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: screen-saver (page history and authors); screensaver (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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