TELEVISION SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does television system mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELEVISION SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

television; television system

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

telecom equipment; telecom system; telecommunication equipment; telecommunication system (a communication system for communicating at a distance)

Meronyms (parts of "television system"):

audio (the sound elements of television)

cathode-ray tube; CRT (a vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen)

monitor (electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions)

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

boob tube; goggle box; idiot box; television; television receiver; television set; telly; tv; tv set (an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen)

television transmitter (transmitter that is part of a television system)

Domain category:

telecasting; television; TV; video (broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects)

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

cable; cable system; cable television; cable television service (a television system that transmits over cables)

closed-circuit television (a television system that is not used for broadcasting but is connected by cables to designated monitors (as in a factory or theater))

color television; color television system; color TV; colour television; colour television system; colour TV (a television that transmits images in color)

satellite television; satellite TV (a television system in which the signal is transmitted to an orbiting satellite that receives the signal and amplifies it and transmits it back to earth)