TELEVISION CAMERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does television camera mean? 

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

1. television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELEVISION CAMERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

camera; television camera; tv camera

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

television equipment; video equipment (electronic equipment that broadcasts or receives electromagnetic waves representing images and sound)

Meronyms (parts of "television camera"):

camera lens; optical lens (a lens that focuses the image in a camera)

hood; lens hood (a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera)

mosaic (transducer formed by the light-sensitive surface on a television camera tube)

television-camera tube; television pickup tube (a tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals)

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

camcorder (a portable television camera and videocassette recorder)

 Context examples 

Diaphranography (transillumination light scanning) is a non-invasive imaging procedure for the detection and evaluation of breast disease, by visualizing lesions through a television camera sensitive to infrared light.

(Diaphranography, NCI Thesaurus)