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COLOUR TV TUBE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does colour TV tube mean?
• COLOUR TV TUBE (noun)
The noun COLOUR TV TUBE has 1 sense:
1. a television tube that displays images in full color
Familiarity information: COLOUR TV TUBE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A television tube that displays images in full color
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
color television tube; color tube; color TV tube; colour television tube; colour tube; colour TV tube
Hypernyms ("colour TV tube" is a kind of...):
kinescope; picture tube; television tube (a cathode-ray tube in a television receiver; translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "colour TV tube"):
tricolor television tube; tricolor tube; tricolour television tube; tricolour tube (a color television tube in which three primary colors are combined to give the full range of colors)
Holonyms ("colour TV tube" is a part of...):
color television; color television system; color TV; colour television; colour television system; colour TV (a television that transmits images in color)
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