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on-screen

  [on-skreen, awn-]
Use onscreen in a Sentence
–adjective
1. occurring within a motion picture or television show or in an actor's professional life: a raucous on-screen personality that was at odds with his quiet private life.
2. displayed on a television screen; supplied by means of television: an on-screen course in economics.
–adverb
3. in a motion picture or television program or in one's professional life: On-screen he's a villain.
Origin:
1950–55
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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on·screen or on-screen   (ŏn'skrēn', ôn'-)   
adj.   & adv.

  1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen.

  2. Within public view; in public.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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