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PICTURE TUBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does picture tube mean? 

PICTURE TUBE (noun)
  The noun PICTURE TUBE has 1 sense:

1. a cathode-ray tube in a television receiver; translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screenplay

  Familiarity information: PICTURE TUBE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PICTURE TUBE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A cathode-ray tube in a television receiver; translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

kinescope; picture tube; television tube

Hypernyms ("picture tube" is a kind of...):

cathode-ray tube; CRT (a vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "picture tube"):

color television tube; color tube; color TV tube; colour television tube; colour tube; colour TV tube (a television tube that displays images in full color)

Holonyms ("picture tube" is a part of...):

boob tube; goggle box; idiot box; television; television receiver; television set; telly; tv; tv set (an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen)


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