split screen
noun
: a film or video technique in which the frame is divided into discrete nonoverlapping images
also
: the visual composition based on this technique
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There was a decisive winner to the Lower 48 states’ split screen winter — a battle between frigid cold in the East and record warmth in the West.
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Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 7 Mar. 2026
But its appearance in the waters near Venezuela presented exactly the kind of split screen Beijing wanted the nations of Latin America to see.
—Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2026
My first instinct was that this sounded too much like those brain rot, key-jangling TikToks that are a split screen of Minecraft and a Family Guy episode.
—James Folta, Literary Hub, 13 Jan. 2026
The SoHo store will celebrate its grand reopening this weekend, offering shoppers a kind of split screen on where Target is headed and where it’s been.
—Evan Clark, Footwear News, 8 Dec. 2025
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Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 7 Mar. 2026
But its appearance in the waters near Venezuela presented exactly the kind of split screen Beijing wanted the nations of Latin America to see.
—Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2026
My first instinct was that this sounded too much like those brain rot, key-jangling TikToks that are a split screen of Minecraft and a Family Guy episode.
—James Folta, Literary Hub, 13 Jan. 2026
The SoHo store will celebrate its grand reopening this weekend, offering shoppers a kind of split screen on where Target is headed and where it’s been.
—Evan Clark, Footwear News, 8 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for split screen
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“Split screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/split%20screen. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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