Definitions for "Reverse video"
highlights selected text with a background color and a change of text color.
In a monochrome monitor, a display mode used to highlight characters on the screen by reversing the normal background and foreground colors.
A feature on a display unit that produces the opposite combination of characters and background from that which is usually employed, that is, white characters on a black screen, if having black characters on a white screen is normal. Part or all of the data may be displayed as black on white instead of the usual white on black.