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Kotomora

ブルーバック

Meanings

1

noun

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

2

noun

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

3

noun

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).