blue screen (chroma key)
Refers to a blue backdrop used in video production for chroma key compositing. Wasei-eigo from English 'blue back'.
wasei-eigo (Japanese-coined English), from blue back
In the weather forecast, they stand in front of a blue screen to explain.
Blue Screen of Death; BSOD
Computing term for the Windows error screen. Often abbreviated as BSoD. See also ブルースクリーン.
See also: ブルースクリーン
blaubok; bluebuck; blue antelope
Only with reading ブルーバック
Extinct species of antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus). This sense is restricted to the reading ブルーバック (without interpunct).
My computer suddenly got the Blue Screen of Death.
The bluebuck is a type of antelope that went extinct in the 19th century.
Variant with interpunct; less common but seen in some contexts.
Sense 1 is wasei-eigo from English 'blue back'. Sense 2 is from English 'Blue Screen of Death'. Sense 3 is from Afrikaans/Dutch 'blaubok' via English.