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touch screen

noun

    1. a visual display unit screen that allows the user to give commands to the computer by touching parts of the screen instead of using the keyboard
    2. ( as modifier )

      a touch-screen computer

“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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A touch screen in our cabin displays all the staffed and autonomous vehicles and other equipment in the vicinity, along with "permission lines" that show the immediate routes the self-driving trucks are intending to take.

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It is mirror-fronted flip phone and has no app store or touch screen.

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Soon tip jars that once collected loose change at cash registers morphed into touch screens suggesting significantly larger tip amounts, even for small purchases.

Pet owners are teaching their dogs to press “talking buttons” and zoos are training their apes to use touch screens.

Why couldn’t they just use universal touch screens for everything like we did back home?

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