projection television

American  

noun

1. a television picture display system consisting of a special receiver and an optical system that projects an enlarged picture on a screen.

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projection television British  

noun

1. a television receiver in which a very bright picture on a small cathode-ray tube screen is optically projected onto a large screen

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Example Sentences

The next stop for the 50-inch DLP projection television and its dilapidated companions is tucked away in an industrial section of New Jersey’s Bergen County: this is a sorting facility, where all of New York City’s electronic waste goes to be separated and packaged before being sent out to various recycling facilities.

From The Verge

It was initially developed for projection television. 

From Forbes

Across the city, at the rugby field where hundreds had gone to watch the World Cup final on a large projection television screen, at least 10 people were confirmed dead, but witnesses said the number was higher.

From New York Times

The junior Adam Wire and the senior Pete Reynolds played Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 on a projection television in Reynolds’s room.

From New York Times

Zenith projection television and a cluttered table.

From Time Magazine Archive