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on-screen
(on′skrēn′, ôn′-),USA pronunciation adj.
adv.
- Cinema, Show Businessoccurring within a motion picture or television show or in an actor's professional life:a raucous on-screen personality that was at odds with his quiet private life.
- Cinema, Show Businessdisplayed on a television screen;
supplied by means of television:an on-screen course in economics.
adv.
- Cinema, Show Businessin a motion picture or television program or in one's professional life:On-screen he's a villain.
- 1950–55