picture tube
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of picture tube
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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Despite all this, picture tube televisions continue to linger.
From The Verge ● Feb. 6, 2018
The replay boards suffer against the standards of today, like entering a hotel room with a small-screen television backed with a giant picture tube.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2013
Paik was perhaps the first person to perceive the TV screen as a canvas and, ergo, the stream of electrons that creates images on the picture tube as paint.
From Time Magazine Archive
The faint shadows may be barely visible, but when they appear on the picture tube, they are bright enough to be studied in full daylight.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a moment I was disoriented, seized by panic; could a ghost embody itself through wavelengths, electronic dots, a picture tube?
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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