high-definition television

1. 1.

   a television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail

   SynonymsHDTV

   Broadertelevision

Questions about high-definition television

What does high-definition television mean?

high-definition television means "a television system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame so its pictures show more detail".

What is another word for high-definition television?

Close synonyms include HDTV. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is high-definition television a common word?

high-definition television is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.