television-camera tube

1. 1.

   a tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals

   Synonymstelevision pickup tube

   Broadertube

   Narrowericonoscopeorthicon

   Part oftelevision camera

Questions about television-camera tube

What does television-camera tube mean?

television-camera tube means "a tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals".

What is another word for television-camera tube?

Close synonyms include television pickup 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 television-camera tube a common word?

television-camera 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.