TELEVISION PICKUP TUBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does television pickup tube mean? 

• TELEVISION PICKUP TUBE (noun)
  The noun TELEVISION PICKUP TUBE has 1 sense:

1. a tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELEVISION PICKUP TUBE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

television-camera tube; television pickup tube

Hypernyms ("television pickup tube" is a kind of...):

electron tube; thermionic tube; thermionic vacuum tube; thermionic valve; tube; vacuum tube (electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope)

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

iconoscope (the first practical television-camera for picture pickup; invented in 1923 by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin)

image orthicon; orthicon (a now obsolete picture pickup tube in a television camera; electrons emitted from a photoemissive surface in proportion to the intensity of the incident light are focused onto the target causing secondary emission of electrons)

Holonyms ("television pickup tube" is a part of...):

camera; television camera; tv camera (television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam)