kinescope

Questions about kinescope

What does kinescope mean?

kinescope means "a cathode-ray tube in a television receiver; translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen".

How many syllables are in kinescope?

kinescope has 3 syllables and divides as ki-ne-scope under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for kinescope?

Close synonyms include picture tube, television tube. 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 kinescope a common word?

kinescope 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.