noun
(British) British term for video display
• Syn: ↑VDU
• Topics: ↑computer, ↑computing machine, ↑computing device, ↑data processor, ↑electronic computer, ↑information processing system
• Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain
• Hypernyms: ↑display, ↑video display
* * *
Chiefly Brit. Computers.
See video display terminal. Abbr.: VDU
[1970-75]
* * *
visual display unit noun (computing)
An older name for a cathode-ray tube which displays data, entered by keyboard or light pen, from a computer's memory (abbrev VDU)
• • •
Main Entry: ↑visual
* * *
visual display unit UK US noun [countable] [singular visual display unit plural visual display units] computing
a vdu
Thesaurus: computer equipment and partshyponym
* * *
= ↑VDU
Useful english dictionary. 2012.