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Televisions

An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.

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noun
  1. 1

    An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.

    "It’s a good thing that television doesn’t transmit smell."

  2. 2

    A device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form.

    "I have an old television in the study."

  3. 3

    Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.

    "fifty-seven channels and nothing on television"

  4. 4

    Vision at a distance.

verb
  1. 1

    To watch television.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Televisions"

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WordDefinition
television setnounA television; an electronic device that receives television signals, and displays the resulting images on a screen.
idiot boxnoun(idiomatic, chiefly US and Canada) Television.
goggle boxnoun(British, slang) A television set.
tellynounTelevision.
tvnoun(colloquial, countable, uncountable) Abbreviation of television. [(uncountable, broadcasting) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.]
videonounTelevision, a television show, or a movie.
tv setnounAlternative form of television set. [A television; an electronic device that receives television signals, and displays the resulting images on a screen.]
boob tubenoun(informal, dated, derogatory) A television.
telecastingnounbroadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects
television receivernouna receiver that displays television images
television systemIn Canada, a television system is a group of television stations which share common ownership, branding and programming, but which for some reason does not satisfy the criteria necessary for it to be classified as a television network under Canadian law.
broadcastersnoun(broadcasting) An organization or station that engages in the activity of such broadcasting.
channelsnounFormal lines of command and procedure.
receiversnounA person who receives.
setsnoun(informal) Set theory.
tvsnounInitialism of topological vector space. [(functional analysis) A vector space over a topological field endowed with a topology (often the real or complex numbers with standard topology) such that vector addition and scalar multiplication are continuous functions.]
televiseverbTo broadcast, or be broadcast, by television.
televisualof or relating to television
television tubenounA cathode ray tube used for television.
television cameranountelevision equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam

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