touch screen

noun [C] IT, COMMUNICATIONS

Definition

› a screen on a computer, phone, etc. that you touch in order to give it instructions, rather than using a keyboard or keypad: Customers use a touch screen to buy tickets.

touch-screen adjective [before noun] › Voters now use a touch-screen voting system.

(Definition of touch screen noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

+ Free Dictionary Toolbar for Browsers
+ Add Dictionary Search to iGoogle and your website

+ Become a fan on Facebook
+ Follow us on Twitter!

Our dictionaries

British English
American English
Business English
Learner's Dictionary
Essential British English
Essential American English
English-Spanish
Español-inglés
English-Turkish

Browse the Thesaurus

Business
Clothes
Education
Finance
Light and colour
Personal care

“touch screen” in other dictionaries

in Spanish
in Turkish

British English
Learner's

Browse the Dictionary

total quality management noun
total shareholder return noun
total verb
touch noun
touch on/upon sth
touch screen noun
touch sth up
touch verb
touch-type verb
tough love noun
tough-minded adjective

Word of the Day

honest-to-goodness

real or true

Word of the Day ►

Blog

Read our blog about how the English language behaves.

Learn More ►

New Words

Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.