picture tube

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noun

a cathode-ray tube with a screen at one end on which images are reproduced.

Origin of picture tube

First recorded in 1935–40

Words Nearby picture tube

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How to use picture tube in a sentence

Art hoped it wouldn't be the picture tube; that wasn't covered in his service policy, and those tubes in that size cost money.
Cue for Quiet | Thomas L. Sherred
In the picture tube there was a stir, then she sat up and looked around in a sort of daze.
Highways in Hiding | George Oliver Smith
The brain energy by itself can't take the 147 place of a picture tube in a TV receiver.
Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X | Victor Appleton

British Dictionary definitions for picture tube

picture tube

noun

another name for television tube

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