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television tube

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noun

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

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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

Last week Bell Aircraft Corp. described an experimental plane which takes off and lands with the unwinking eye of a television tube watching the instruments and the horizon ahead.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though RCA now holds patents on the only color television tube to meet FCC standards.

From Time Magazine Archive

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