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say it: TEE-vee
tv is a noun meaning "broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects". It carries 2 recorded senses.
broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects
“she is a star of screen and video”
“Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done”
an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen
“the British call a tv set a telly”
television
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tv come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.