seven-segment display

noun

1. an arrangement of seven bars forming a square figure of eight, used in electronic displays of alphanumeric characters: any letter or figure can be represented by illuminating selected bars

Example Sentences

A matte black box the size of a Webster’s dictionary displays the time in green-yellow seven-segment display, frozen in time since 1995.

From Time

In another experiment, the researchers built a molecular computer that generated a seven-segment display like those that create the numbers on digital clocks.

From Scientific American

The standard seven-segment display of the ten digits is shown in the second line in the figure above.

From New York Times