wide screen

1. 1.

   a projection screen that is much wider than it is high

   Broaderscreen

Questions about wide screen

What does wide screen mean?

wide screen means "a projection screen that is much wider than it is high".

Is wide screen a common word?

wide screen is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.