touch screen
noun
variants
or touchscreen
: a display screen on which the user selects options (as from a menu) by touching the screen
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With leather seating for seven or eight passengers, power seats, and every convenience—including third row seats that can be raised or lowered with a button on the front touch screen—the Escalade is luxury at its finest.
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Scotty Reiss, Parents, 6 Feb. 2025
During hectic times of the NBA schedule—such as the beginning of the offseason, when players are first changing teams—Marks often appears on ESPN in front of a large touch screen, drilling down on a team’s balance sheet in the same way Kornacki might with a Wisconsin swing district.
—Jordan Sargent, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2025
Casual players may be used to interacting with iPhone games using a touch screen, but people who want more precision should check out a controller (Apple Arcade supports wireless gamepads).
—PCMAG, 4 Feb. 2025
The center stack has physical controls for volume, temperature, fan and other primary climate controls, plus buttons for the touch screen’s home screen, map, search, media, setup and a programmable button.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 16 Dec. 2024
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Scotty Reiss, Parents, 6 Feb. 2025
During hectic times of the NBA schedule—such as the beginning of the offseason, when players are first changing teams—Marks often appears on ESPN in front of a large touch screen, drilling down on a team’s balance sheet in the same way Kornacki might with a Wisconsin swing district.
—Jordan Sargent, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2025
Casual players may be used to interacting with iPhone games using a touch screen, but people who want more precision should check out a controller (Apple Arcade supports wireless gamepads).
—PCMAG, 4 Feb. 2025
The center stack has physical controls for volume, temperature, fan and other primary climate controls, plus buttons for the touch screen’s home screen, map, search, media, setup and a programmable button.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Touch screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/touch%20screen. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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