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COLOUR TELEVISION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does colour television mean?
• COLOUR TELEVISION (noun)
The noun COLOUR TELEVISION has 1 sense:
1. a television that transmits images in color
Familiarity information: COLOUR TELEVISION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("colour 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 "colour 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 "colour 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)
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