(1) A non-curved screen on a TV. Contrast with curved screen. See flat screen. (2) A reference to TVs when LCD screens were replacing CRTs starting in the late 1990s and early 2000s. See flat screen.

A thin display screen for a computer ... See LCD, OLED, plasma display and flat panel TV. The first LCD panels appeared on laptops in the mid-1980s. In that same time frame, LCD computer monitors ...