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orthiconoscope
Variant of orthicon
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noun
a television camera tube, an improved form of the iconoscope, in which the charges on a photosensitive plate are scanned by a low-velocity electron beam which is reflected and which delivers the signal current to an output electrode
also orthiconoscope
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