telescreenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From tele- +‎ screen, from television. Popularized by George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), in which they are used for government surveillance of citizens.

名詞

telescreen (plural telescreens)

1. (science fiction) A screen for broadcasting television or similar media, especially one that shows propaganda and records or spies on the user.
   • 1973, Robert Theobald, Stephanie Mills, The failure of success: ecological values vs. economic myths:

     Too many millions of people, watching their telescreens, had seen his unpardonable arrogance.

   • 2002, Teresa Plowright, Dreams of an Unseen Planet:

     She pushed buttons at a new, small oval kind of telescreen, quickly gathering together the high-level authorizations it had taken hours of preparation to collect.

参考

• videoscreen
• vidscreen