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flat-panel display
/ ڱă′ă′ə /
- A thin, often lightweight video display used in computer monitors and televisions as an alternative to the cathode-ray tube. Flat-panel displays often employ liquid crystals or electroluminescent materials such as light-emitting diodes.
- Also called flat screen
Example Sentences
For example, a computer assembled in China may require a chip made in Taiwan or Malaysia, a flat-panel display from South Korea and dozens of other electronics drawn from around the world, requiring specialized chemicals from other parts of China or Europe.
If you want to see something really crazy, it’s like the flat-panel display you and I are looking at each other on right now.
In April, Foxconn drastically scaled back plans for a $10 billion factory in Wisconsin, confirming its retreat from a project that Donald Trump as president once called “the eighth wonder of the world” and was supposed to build cutting-edge, flat-panel display screens.
Mr. Walker, who has made promises of job creation a centerpiece of his two terms in office, has pushed lawmakers to move quickly in approving the bill, which would offer Foxconn, a producer of flat-panel display screens for televisions and other consumer electronics, close to $3 billion in state tax credits.
Over all, the subsidies for the Foxconn plant, which would produce flat-panel display screens for televisions and other consumer electronics, equal $15,000 to $19,000 per job annually.
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