A display technique in which the colours of some text characters and their background are reversed (on older monitors usually giving black characters on a white background), typically used to highlight text.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in Program.
Definition of reverse video in US English:
reverse video
noun
Computing
A display technique in which the colours of some text characters and their background are reversed (on older monitors usually giving black characters on a white background), typically used to highlight text.