television tube

British  

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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Example Sentences

In some places, these appear like the fluttering horizontal lines produced by an old television tube, as if we are getting a distorted picture beamed over fickle airwaves.

From Washington Post

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 Literature

Instead, because of a bizarre 50-year-old convention, they measure the 1950s television tube that those rectangular sensor chips could fit inside of.

From New York Times

Electrons are a useful model that explains observations like tracks in a cloud chamber and the spots of light on a television tube.

From Time