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television

[ tel-uh-vizh-uhn ]

noun

  1. the transmission of programming, in the form of still or moving images, via radio waves, cable wires, satellite, or wireless network to a receiver or other screen.
  2. the process or product involved:

    to watch television.

  3. an electronic device or set for receiving television broadcasts or similar programming.
  4. the field of television broadcasting, or similar transmission of programming.


television

/ ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən /

noun

  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 calledtelevision 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



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Derived Forms

  • ˌteleˈvisionally, adverb
  • ˌteleˈvisional, adjective
  • ˌteleˈvisionary, adjective

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Other Words From

  • 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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Word History and Origins

Origin of television1

First recorded in 1905–10; tele- 1 + vision

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Word History and Origins

Origin of television1

C20: from tele- + vision

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Example Sentences

The reality television shows that bookend Karamo Brown’s career on our screens show remarkably different sides to the 39-year-old Florida native.

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In the 1970s, analog closed-circuit television added remote visual monitoring of people.

If a television manufacturer that sells $1,000 TVs relocates production overseas, and Americans start buying $500 imported TVs instead, the amount of economic activity “displaced” by offshoring shows up as $500, not $1,000.

Assuming nothing goes awry between now and then, professional basketball will return to our television screens soon.

I was in Europe for a NATO defense ministers’ meeting, and I was coming back on the day that, and they brought me in through closed-circuit television.

The last film about Martin Luther King was made for television in 1977.

The television networks interrupt their broadcasts to take the nation directly to Selma.

He appears frequently on television as a political commentator.

The Friday Night Lights television show featured characters talking of “Texas forever.”

It is impossible to calculate the full effect that watching this on television, listening on the radio must have had on Sam.

Objectionable publications, films, broadcasting, and television have been the subject of expert appraisal in many countries.

Although television is not yet available in New Zealand, its introduction is inevitable.

And the television, the television Agnes loved to watch, but would never watch alone.

No; I just want you to put an "X" as to where the sofa is, and put a double "X" as to where the television set is.

It was like the television thrillers, after all, Parr reflected.

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