television

[ tel-uh-vizh-uhn ]

/ ˈtɛl əˌvɪʒ ən /

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noun

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.

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Also called TV

[tee-vee, tee-] /ˈtiˈvi, ˌti-/ .

Origin of television

First recorded in 1905–10; tele-¹ + vision

OTHER WORDS FROM television

tel·e·vi·sion·al

[tel-uh-vizh-uh-nl], /ˌtɛl əˈvɪʒ ə nl/, adjectivetel·e·vi·sion·al·ly, adverbtel·e·vi·sion·ar·y

[tel-uh-vizh-uh-ner-ee], /ˌtɛl əˈvɪʒ əˌnɛr i/, adjectivepre·tel·e·vi·sion, adjective

Words nearby television

teletypist, teleutospore, televangelist, teleview, televise, television, television station, television tube, televisor, televisual, telework

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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.
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In the 1970s, analog closed-circuit television added remote visual monitoring of people.
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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.
Unmade in America|Tate Ryan-Mosley|August 14, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Assuming nothing goes awry between now and then, professional basketball will return to our television screens soon.
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I 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.
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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|DAILY BEAST
The 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|DAILY BEAST
He appears frequently on television as a political commentator.
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The Friday Night Lights television show featured characters talking of “Texas forever.”
Will Texas Stay Texan?|David Fontana|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is impossible to calculate the full effect that watching this on television, listening on the radio must have had on Sam.
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Objectionable 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 Venable
No; 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 Kennedy
It was like the television thrillers, after all, Parr reflected.
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British Dictionary definitions for television

television

/ (ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən) /

noun

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 programmeshe's in television

(modifier) of, relating to, or used in the transmission or reception of video and audio UHF or VHF radio signalsa television transmitter

Abbreviation: TV

Derived forms of television

televisional, adjectivetelevisionally, adverbtelevisionary, adjective

Word Origin for television

C20: from tele- + vision

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