television pickup tube

What does television pickup tube mean?

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

What is another word for television pickup tube?

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

television pickup 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 television pickup tube come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.