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screen memory
noun
- a childhood memory, perhaps recalled falsely, that screens out a more distressing recollection.
screen memory
noun
- psychoanal a memory that is tolerable but allied to a distressing event and which is unconsciously used to hide the distressing memory
Word History and Origins
Origin of screen memory1
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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