multiscreen

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English

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Etymology

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From multi- +‎ screen.

Adjective

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multiscreen (not comparable)

  1. Having multiple screens.
    • 1988 October 7, Anthony Adler, “Some Men Need Help”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      That theater's a multiscreen movie complex now, but it used to house an in-the-round stage with fat, soft, fall-asleep seats and lots of garish red carpeting.

Noun

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multiscreen (plural multiscreens)

  1. A cinema with more than one screen.
    • 1997, AIMAC Proceedings, page 492:
      Multiscreens can show blockbusters which have not yet attracted their full audience.
    • 2017, Stephen Dowle, The National Bus Company: The Middle Years:
      Conventional cinemas had now mostly been converted to 'multiscreens'; []

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