wide-screen
adjective
: of or relating to a projected picture whose aspect ratio is substantially greater than 1.33:1
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The life of the rural region is framed in airy and luminous wide-screen images that recur with a lyrical vision of vast arcs of time amid dramatic social change.
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
VistaVision, a high-resolution wide-screen film format developed by Paramount Pictures engineers in 1954 to compete with Twentieth Century-Fox’s CinemaScope format in Hollywood’s effort to draw viewers away from television and back to movie theaters.
—Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Mar. 2026
Antarctica exists only in wide-screen.
—Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2026
So an object that is one meter wide, such as a small wide-screen TV, would have an apparent size of one degree at a distance of 57.3 meters.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2026
Other scenes use wide-screen to evoke 2010s detective thrillers.
—Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025
That tech was advanced for its time, but nowadays, the wide-screen format doesn’t stand out as much.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 1 Dec. 2025
Here are some of my favorite train routes through the U.K.
Crossing the wide-screen valleys and viaducts of the rural Yorkshire Dales and North Pennines, the Settle-to-Carlisle line provides a gorgeous 73-mile journey through the heart of northern England.
—James March, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2025
People typing and talking on phones can be tedious to watch, but Mackenzie gives his wide-screen images kinetic magnetism.
—Bob Strauss, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2025
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
VistaVision, a high-resolution wide-screen film format developed by Paramount Pictures engineers in 1954 to compete with Twentieth Century-Fox’s CinemaScope format in Hollywood’s effort to draw viewers away from television and back to movie theaters.
—Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Mar. 2026
Antarctica exists only in wide-screen.
—Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2026
So an object that is one meter wide, such as a small wide-screen TV, would have an apparent size of one degree at a distance of 57.3 meters.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2026
Other scenes use wide-screen to evoke 2010s detective thrillers.
—Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025
That tech was advanced for its time, but nowadays, the wide-screen format doesn’t stand out as much.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 1 Dec. 2025
Here are some of my favorite train routes through the U.K.
Crossing the wide-screen valleys and viaducts of the rural Yorkshire Dales and North Pennines, the Settle-to-Carlisle line provides a gorgeous 73-mile journey through the heart of northern England.
—James March, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2025
People typing and talking on phones can be tedious to watch, but Mackenzie gives his wide-screen images kinetic magnetism.
—Bob Strauss, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2025
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“Wide-screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wide-screen. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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