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The definition of a television is an electronic device used to receive sound and images which create television programs that people watch.
(noun)A device in your house on which you watch sitcoms, movies or the news is an example of a television.
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See television in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- the practice or science of transmitting scenes or views by radio or, sometimes, by wire: the television transmitter, by means of a camera tube, such as an image orthicon or vidicon, converts light rays into electric signals for modulation upon a radio carrier wave or for transmission over wires; the television receiver reconverts the signals into electron beams that are projected against the fluorescent screen of the kinescope, or picture tube, reproducing the original image
- broadcasting by television as an industry, entertainment, art, etc.
- all the facilities and related activities of such broadcasting
- a television receiving set
- a television program or programs: they watched television last night
Origin: tele- + vision
adjective
of, using, used in, or sent by television
Related Forms:
- televisional adjective
- televisionally adverb
See television in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- a. The transmission of dynamic or sometimes static images, generally with accompanying sound, via electric or electromagnetic signals.b. An electronic apparatus that receives such signals, reproducing the images on a screen, and typically reproducing accompanying sound signals on speakers.c. The visual and audio content of such signals.
- The industry of producing and broadcasting television programs.
Origin:
Origin: French télévision
Origin: : télé-, far (from Greek tēle-, tele-)
Origin: + vision, vision; see vision
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