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

   Synonymsimage orthicon

   Broadertelevision-camera tube

Other forms of orthicon

plural

orthicons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about orthicon

What does orthicon mean?

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".

How many syllables are in orthicon?

orthicon has 3 syllables: or-thi-con. The stress falls on "or".

What is another word for orthicon?

Close synonyms include image 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 orthicon a common word?

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.