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television tube

British  

noun

  1. Also called: picture tube.  Sometimes shortened to: tube.  a cathode-ray tube designed for the reproduction of television pictures

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The electron is given kinetic energy that is later converted to another form—light in the television tube, for example.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

An electron is accelerated between two charged metal plates as it might be in an old-model television tube or oscilloscope.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

Like the 21-in. image on the television tube, TV news commentary lacks depth.

From Time Magazine Archive

LEE A. DuBRIDGE, former president of Caltech: Carl Sagan has an influence on science far beyond the television tube.

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If we could only juxtapose one eyeball of this sanctified woman and a television tube, both being roughly of the same shape and design, what a phantasmagoria of exploding electrodes would occur.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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