image orthicon

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymsorthicon

   Broadertelevision-camera tube

Questions about image orthicon

What does image orthicon mean?

image orthicon means "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".

What is another word for image orthicon?

Close synonyms include orthicon. 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 image orthicon a common word?

image orthicon 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.