Fourteen-segment display
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A fourteen-segment display (sometimes referred to as a starburst display) is a type of display based on 14 segments that can be turned on or off according to the graphic pattern to be produced. It is an extension of the more common seven-segment display (the fourteen-segment display having an additional 4 diagonal, 2 vertical, and 1 horizontal segment[s]). .
Before the advent of inexpensive dot-matrix displays, fourteen and sixteen-segment displays were some of the few options available for producing alphanumeric characters on calculators and other embedded systems.
A fourteen-segment display may be based on one of several technologies, the most common being optoelectronic ones such as LED and LCD technology. The LED variant is typically manufactured in single or dual character packages, allowing the system designer to choose the number of characters suiting the application.
Fourteen-segment gas-plasma displays (with an additional comma and period part making for a total of 16 segments) were used in pinball machines from 1986 through 1991.