Meaning | A tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals. |
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Synonym | television-camera tube |
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Part of | television camera, tv camera, camera | television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam |
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Narrower | iconoscope | The first practical television-camera for picture pickup |
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orthicon, image orthicon | A now obsolete picture pickup tube in a television camera |
Broader | tube, vacuum tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic tube, electron tube, thermionic valve | electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope |
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