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television

[tel-uh-vizh-uhn]

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noun

the broadcasting of a still or moving image via radiowaves to receivers that project a view of the image on a picture tube.

the process involved.

a set for receiving television broadcasts.

the field of television broadcasting.

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Origin:
1905–10; tele-¹ + vision

Related forms

tel·e·vi·sion·al

[tel-uh-vizh-uh-nl] , adjective

tel·e·vi·sion·al·ly, adverb

tel·e·vi·sion·ar·y

[tel-uh-vizh-uh-ner-ee] , adjective

pre·tel·e·vi·sion, adjective

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Tell us which shows from the new television season will be ratings winners and which will be canceled.

College courses based around television shows or movies are nothing new.

And he wants to change television in ways that viewers will notice more.

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Tell us which shows from the new television season will be ratings winners and which will be canceled.

College courses based around television shows or movies are nothing new.

And he wants to change television in ways that viewers will notice more.

Making a television set is an involved industrial process.

Television advertisers will pay immense sums of money to ensure a captive audience.

Picture yourself in front of a television screen that has an electronic typewriter built in below it.

They've also extended the party well past game time, often catching the plays on radio or television as they continue feasting.

Meanwhile, television sets are basically static and networked.

New technology can help television viewers sort out the intricacies of sailboat racing.

Television broadcasting in local languages, however, is costly and tricky.

Fortunately, you have several avenues through which you can responsibly dispose of your television.

Highlander was a series of fantasy movies and also a television series about certain people who have the luck to be immortal.

Their warnings crawl across television screens in every season.

The first television show to have a commercial sponsor debuts.

The ghostbusters of reality television never actually see dead people.

Weather and television satellites are generally in this category.

Tabloid television offers a lesson in uncritical thinking.

Standards changed after a generation grew up watching movies on television rather than in theaters.

It's a wonderfully geeky system for compiling a television show.

The idea that these people will be cut off from vital information due to a digital television switch is a farse.

They've got their own television show, plenty of films, and even a musical.

So much so that they fashioned a television show after him.

Get a job, develop a hobby and stop watching reality television.

Pioneer's television business has become the latest victim to the troubled economy.

My mother loves watching the weather news on television.

Television resolutions used to be horribly inferior to computer monitors.

But delivered through a normal television set, the creatures feel kind of dinky.

For decades, the movie industry has been competing against the technological progress television.

Every episode of what was probably the environmental movement's first television series is now available on the web.

Your television is harboring numberless nature shows, and not all the animals are cute.

Now, a local television news report and the wave of coverage that followed.

They watch thousands of hours of cookery shows on television.

Therefore, iPhone apps must rely on the wireless signal and a few hacks to control your television.

She insisted in her books and television series that there were no bad dogs, only bad owners.

Television contracts stop fans watching their local teams, so the main beneficiaries are exiles.

The landing drew the largest television audience for any live event up until that time.

Excessive television or computer use may indicate psychological problems.

And the whimsical television spots only bolstered the eggs' wundercandy ethos.

Television series budgets are far leaner, but you'll probably get a show cap or jacket.

Their websites turned into a mish-mash of tweets, psephological studies, videos and links to newspaper and television reports.

Chronicles" premieres this fall on local public television stations.

Television was a solitary activity that crowded out other forms of social connection.

When television networks agree to pricey sports deals, they often cover their costs by adding commercial air time during games.

For television firms stumbling out of recession, it could not have come at a better time.

The satellite relays television programs from a central broadcast station to a local television station.

We've all heard scantily clad spokespeople make bogus claims about instant weight-loss supplements on late-night television.

Though television companion apps exist for the iPad, this automatic syncing feature represents a big step forward.

My discipline is communications, specifically film, television and radio production and criticism.

The second big change is the rise of television as a marketing tool.

Perhaps you bought a certain brand of chocolate only because a television ad for it showed warm tropical beaches and palm trees.

He has seen it on television and in comic books and acted out at country fairs and in school theatricals.

Back in their apartments, it's a book or the television.

Three-dimensional television got a major marketing push nearly two years ago from the consumer.

Maryland-to adjust your past impressions from stage, screen and television to this reality.

The centerpiece of a new home theater system is going to be a flat screen television of some sort.

Let's use the commercials for hydrogen-powered cars that are starting to make appearances on television as an example.

Newsreels have long since been supplanted by television news, but filmmakers never stopped making advocacy pieces.

There are two kinds of people in the world--those who hold still when they talk, and those who want to be on television.

The problem with innovation in the television industry is the go-to-market strategy.

Everyone has seen a depiction of hypnosis similar to this one in movies and on television.

They've got their own television show, plenty of films, and even a.

Broadcast television has already lost some ground to streaming and downloadable media.

Often, people who make movies and television shows about scientists have no sense of what the reality of their lives is like.

What will happen when a standard television remote control provides.

Television sets won't work, even if there were a place to plug them in.

We are always looking for good things on television for our kids.

In the post-Soviet era, television has been both a source of power struggles and a means for their resolution.

These androids, cyborgs and other memorable machines made their marks on movies and television in the past century.

It's not enough that television psychics talk to the dead.

Young readers are abandoning them for the internet and television.

The rule guaranteeing that any successful television series will spawn a bunch of clones has not been suspended after all.

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World English Dictionary

television (ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən)

—n
1.	the system or process of producing on a distant screen a series of transient visible images, usually with an accompanying sound signal. Electrical signals, converted from optical images by a camera tube, are transmitted by UHF or VHF radio waves or by cable and reconverted into optical images by means of a television tube inside a television set
2.	Also called: television set a device designed to receive and convert incoming electrical signals into a series of visible images on a screen together with accompanying sound
3.	the content, etc, of television programmes
4.	the occupation or profession concerned with any aspect of the broadcasting of television programmes: he's in television
5.	(modifier) of, relating to, or used in the transmission or reception of video and audio UHF or VHF radio signals: a television transmitter

[C20: from tele- + vision]

tele'visional

—*adj*

tele'visionally

—*adv*

tele'visionary

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

television

1907, "the action of seeing by means of Hertzian waves or otherwise, what is existing or happening at a place concealed or distant from the observer's eyes" [OED]; in theoretical discussions about sending images by radio transmission, formed in English or borrowed from Fr. télévision,

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from tele- + vision. Other proposals for the name of this then-hypothetical technology were telephote (1880) and televista (1904). The technology was developed in the 1920s and '30s. Nativized in Ger. as Fernsehen.

"Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everyone and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want." [Clive Barnes, "New York Times," Dec. 30, 1969]

Meaning "a television set" is from 1955. Shortened form TV is from 1948.

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Computing Dictionary

television definition

hardware
A dedicated push media device for receiving streaming video and audio, either by terrestrial radio broadcast, satellite or cable.
(1997-11-23)

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