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ScreenTek is proud to provide you this glossary of common terms in the laptop LCD screen industry, and in the laptop notebook industry. Feel free to become more familiar with the terms we use throughout our site. If you notice any glaring omissions, we'd be glad to hear about those. Drop us a line at sales@screentekinc.com.
Parallel transmittance %
The degree to which beams of light are reflected from an object pass through a material within a predetermined small range of angles
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Patterned Vertical Alignment (PVA)
A type of TFT LCD screen which provides high contrast and brightness.
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Pencil hardness
A test that uses a variety of pencils with varying hardness to determine the hardness of a film.
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 Pixel
Spawned from combining the words picture and element (pix-el), a pixel is basically is the smallest addressable unit on a display screen or bitmapped image.
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Pixel pitch
The distance between a red, blue or green component and the next closest component, measured in mm.
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Polarizer
A surfacing that covers an LCD panel which acts as a filter to help control the which direction light travels.
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Power consumption
The amount of power that an electronic device consumes.
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Privacy film
A film that is within an LCD screen that controls the position from where the display can be viewed.
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Pull
An LCD screen which has been removed from a used laptop.
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QXGA
(2048 x 1536), 1.33x aspect ratio, Standard
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Reflection
An occurrence of reflecting; the return of light or sound waves from a surface.
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Reflective
A viewing mode which uses ambient or other front lighting to provide the illumination for the display.
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Reflexive reflections
Occurs whenever the structure of the surface is such that light striking the surface is preferentially reflected back in the direction of the source.
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Refraction
The change in direction of a wave passing from one medium to another caused by its change in speed.
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Refraction index
The ratio of the speed of radiation (as light) in one medium (as a vacuum) to that in another medium.
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Refurbished
A process which repairs damage to an item, or to make an old item appear new and clean.
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Repolarization
The act of applying a new polarizer to a screen. See polarizer
(more Surface terms)
Resolution
Refers to the amount of pixels that can be displayed on an LCD screen.
(more Image terms)
Response time
The amount of time it takes to respond to a given command or input.
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Retardation film
Improves contrast on STN (super twisted nematic) and TN (twisted nematic)cells and to provide for black and white and color on STN display cells.
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Glossary index
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