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ICONOSCOPE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does iconoscope mean?
• ICONOSCOPE (noun)
The noun ICONOSCOPE has 1 sense:
1. the first practical television-camera for picture pickup; invented in 1923 by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
Familiarity information: ICONOSCOPE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The first practical television-camera for picture pickup; invented in 1923 by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("iconoscope" is a kind of...):
television-camera tube; television pickup tube (a tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals)
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