visiplate

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   in science fiction, an electronic screen capable of displaying images or data

   The pilot watched the approaching planet expand across the visiplate.

A science-fiction compound, probably formed from vision (or the combining form visi-) and plate, with plate used for a flat viewing surface. The closed form visiplate is attested in twentieth-century science fiction; hyphenated visi-plate is an orthographic variant found in some texts.

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