multiscreen
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]multiscreen (not comparable)
- Having multiple screens.
- 1988 October 7, Anthony Adler, “Some Men Need Help”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- That theater's a multiscreen movie complex now, but it used to house an in-the-round stage with fat, soft, fall-asleep seats and lots of garish red carpeting.
Noun
[edit]multiscreen (plural multiscreens)
- A cinema with more than one screen.
- 1997, AIMAC Proceedings, page 492:
- Multiscreens can show blockbusters which have not yet attracted their full audience.
- 2017, Stephen Dowle, The National Bus Company: The Middle Years:
- Conventional cinemas had now mostly been converted to 'multiscreens'; […]