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kin⋅e⋅scope

[kin-uh-skohp, kahy-nuh-] noun, verb, -scoped, -scop⋅ing. Television.
–noun
1. Also, kine. a cathode-ray tube with a fluorescent screen on which an image is reproduced by a directed beam of electrons.
2. the motion-picture record of a television program.
–verb (used with object)
3. to record (a program) on motion-picture film, using a kinescope.

Origin:
1930–35; formerly trademark
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kin·e·scope   (kĭn'ĭ-skōp', kī'nĭ-)   
n.  
  1. See picture tube.

  2. A film of a transmitted television program.

tr.v.   kin·e·scoped, kin·e·scop·ing, kin·e·scopes
To make a film of (a transmitted television program).

[Originally a trademark.]
picture tube  
n.  A cathode-ray tube in a television receiver that translates received electrical signals into a visible picture on a luminescent screen. Also called kinescope.
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