COLOR TELEVISION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does color television mean? 

• COLOR TELEVISION (noun)
  The noun COLOR TELEVISION has 1 sense:

1. a television that transmits images in color

  Familiarity information: COLOR TELEVISION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLOR TELEVISION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A television that transmits images in color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

color television; color television system; color TV; colour television; colour television system; colour TV

Hypernyms ("color television" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "color television"):

color television tube; color tube; color TV tube; colour television tube; colour tube; colour TV tube (a television tube that displays images in full color)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "color television"):

field-sequential color television; field-sequential color television system; field-sequential color TV; field-sequential color TV system (an early form of color TV in which successive fields are scanned in three primary colors)