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.
A display of characters on a background, opposite of the usual display.
the inversion of normal display brightness; a highlighting technique.
Polarity reversal. Negative image. Changing from dark characters on a light background to light characters on a light background, for example.
On a video display, reversed foreground and background colors or tones. Reverse video is used to highlight an area or to identify text to be used or modified. For instance, if text is usually shown with black letters on a white background, reverse video would have white letters on a black background. See also article 5.8.
A form of highlighting a character, field, or cursor by reversing the color of the character, field, or cursor with its background. For example, changing a red character on a black background to a black character on a red background.
Reverse video is a computer display technique wherein the background and text or the colors are reversed http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/r/revevide.htm so that the appearance is that of a negative of the original display.