picture tube

What does picture tube mean?

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

What is another word for picture tube?

Close synonyms include kinescope, 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 picture tube a common word?

picture tube 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for picture tube come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.