CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does closed-circuit television mean? 

• CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION (noun)
  The noun CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION has 1 sense:

1. a television system that is not used for broadcasting but is connected by cables to designated monitors (as in a factory or theater)

  Familiarity information: CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A television system that is not used for broadcasting but is connected by cables to designated monitors (as in a factory or theater)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("closed-circuit television" is a kind of...):

television; television system (a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points)

Domain category:

factory; manufactory; manufacturing plant; mill (a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing)

dramatic art; dramatics; dramaturgy; theater; theatre (the art of writing and producing plays)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "closed-circuit television"):

surveillance system (a closed-circuit television system used to maintain close observation of a person or group)