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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Soon tip jars that once collected loose change at cash registers morphed into touch screens suggesting significantly larger tip amounts, even for small purchases.
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Virginia Postrel, The Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2024
Even the direction of the air vents is controlled from the touch screen.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2024
The result is an spacious cockpit with expansive sight lines and a small center stack that has room for an 11.1-inch touch screen, but not many other controls.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2024
And fingerprints weren’t such an issue then; touch screens were yet to come.
—Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
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Virginia Postrel, The Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2024
Even the direction of the air vents is controlled from the touch screen.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2024
The result is an spacious cockpit with expansive sight lines and a small center stack that has room for an 11.1-inch touch screen, but not many other controls.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2024
And fingerprints weren’t such an issue then; touch screens were yet to come.
—Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
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“Touch screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/touch%20screen. Accessed 11 Sep. 2024.
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