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playfield en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From play + field.

Meanings

1. A playing field.
   • It has been recommended by some recreational specialists that there should be one such playfield for each 500 children of high school age. 1974, Comprehensive Plan for Covington, Kentucky, and Environs:
   • The position of the playfield is here identified as lying north of this open space between it and the burn, and occupying the haugh which extended west […] 1884, Alexander Maxwell, The History of Old Dundee:
2. The onscreen area within which a game (especially a video game) is played.
   • The game has a tilt feature — tilt Fireball and a tilt sign glows and the scoring stops. The full-sized, full-color commercial playfield even has a special friction silk-screened surface so the ball will roll and not slide. 1977, Popular Science:
   • In this case, the playfield is more disorienting and feels more like the maze that it is. 2007, Friedrich von Borries, et al: Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism:
3. (qualifier:pinball) The main surface inside the machine where the ball moves and the game takes place.

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Translations (4)

pl pole widzenia (on-screen area within which a game is played) · bg игрище (on-screen area within which a game is played) · gl campo de xogo (on-screen area within which a game is played) · fi pelikenttä (on-screen area within which a game is played)