television
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.
the process or product involved: to watch television.
an electronic device or set for receiving television broadcasts or similar programming.
the field of television broadcasting, or similar transmission of programming.
Origin of television
1- Also called TV [tee-vee, tee-] /ˈtiˈvi, ˌti-/ .
Other words from television
- tel·e·vi·sion·al [tel-uh-vizh-uh-nl], /ˌtɛl əˈvɪʒ ə nl/, adjective
- tel·e·vi·sion·al·ly, adverb
- tel·e·vi·sion·ar·y [tel-uh-vizh-uh-ner-ee], /ˌtɛl əˈvɪʒ əˌnɛr i/, adjective
- pre·tel·e·vi·sion, adjective
Words Nearby television
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How to use television in a sentence
The reality television shows that bookend Karamo Brown’s career on our screens show remarkably different sides to the 39-year-old Florida native.
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.
Who’s Who In The NBA Bubble: The Teams Just Along For The Ride | Jared Dubin | July 20, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightI 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.
Dr. King Goes to Hollywood: The Flawed History of ‘Selma’ | Gary May | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe television networks interrupt their broadcasts to take the nation directly to Selma.
Dr. King Goes to Hollywood: The Flawed History of ‘Selma’ | Gary May | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTHe appears frequently on television as a political commentator.
Will Dirty Pol Vito Fossella Replace Dirty Pol Michael Grimm? | David Freedlander | December 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe 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.
How Martin Luther King Jr. Influenced Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ | Peter Guralnick | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTObjectionable publications, films, broadcasting, and television have been the subject of expert appraisal in many countries.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents | Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.Although television is not yet available in New Zealand, its introduction is inevitable.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents | Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.And the television, the television Agnes loved to watch, but would never watch alone.
Time Enough at Last | Lyn VenableNo; 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.
Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyIt was like the television thrillers, after all, Parr reflected.
The Devil's Asteroid | Manly Wade Wellman
British Dictionary definitions for television
/ (ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən) /
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
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
the content, etc, of television programmes
the occupation or profession concerned with any aspect of the broadcasting of television programmes: he's in television
(modifier) of, relating to, or used in the transmission or reception of video and audio UHF or VHF radio signals: a television transmitter
Origin of television
1- Abbreviation: TV
Derived forms of television
- televisional, adjective
- televisionally, adverb
- televisionary, adjective
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