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screen memory

noun

, Psychoanalysis.
  1. a childhood memory, perhaps recalled falsely, that screens out a more distressing recollection.


screen memory

noun

  1. psychoanal a memory that is tolerable but allied to a distressing event and which is unconsciously used to hide the distressing memory
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of screen memory1

First recorded in 1920–25
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Example Sentences

Whether, and to what extent, individual women were really immersed in this turmoil is hard to know or even recall, because the ’80s are largely experienced now through screen memory — almost no other decade in recent history seemed to unfold more like a trend story of the least subtle kind.

Why should they jack up their products’ prices by selling you a screen, memory, processor, microphone, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth when you’ve already got all of that in your pocket?

The major causes for this problem are programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the graphics mode in use. :mouse elbow: /n./

A piece of code or coding technique that takes advantage of the unprotected single-tasking environment in IBM PCs and the like, e.g., by busy-waiting on a hardware register, direct diddling of screen memory, or using hard timing loops.

A piece of code or coding technique that takes advantage of the unprotected single-tasking environment in IBM PCs and the like, e.g., by busy-waiting on a hardware register, direct diddling of screen memory, or using hard timing loops.

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