Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cathode-ray tube.
- noun A monitor, television, or projector that displays an image using a cathode-ray tube.
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- initialism electronics Initialism of
Cathode ray tube . - initialism software Initialism of C Run Time.
- noun computing a
monitor that uses a cathrode ray tube
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- noun a vacuum tube in which a hot cathode emits a beam of electrons that pass through a high voltage anode and are focused or deflected before hitting a phosphorescent screen
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Examples
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Most people would probably be surprised to learn that the copper and glass in CRT units is often salvaged.
Weak Economy Bolsters Sales of Picture-Tube TVs - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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CRT is great if all you are viewing is your old Betamax tapes …. —
Jumping on the L.E.D. Bandwagon - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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CRT is still the way to get the best picture from HD.
Weak Economy Bolsters Sales of Picture-Tube TVs - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The room in which the CRT is located is partially illuminated by the pixels.
Boing Boing: November 28, 2004 - December 4, 2004 Archives 2004
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The Japanese for CRT is ブラウン管, buraun kan, which I thought referred to the colour of initial devices, so it meant a “brown tube”, but just last weekend I learnt that it’s so named from the German inventor Braun; in Germany also the CRT is usually called a Braun tube (or whatever the German for tube is).
Three in four still have CRT TVs | 世論 What Japan Thinks 2008
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Tricare said some cognitive rehabilitation therapy, also known as CRT, can be covered for troops when it is wrapped into other forms of treatment, but it cannot be billed as a distinct and defined medical service.
Military insurer denies coverage of new brain injury treatment 2011
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The company is attempting to show that resynchronizing defibrillators, also called CRT-Ds, can help patients with mild heart failure achieve higher scores on a physical exam and questionnaire.
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Such devices are known as CRT-Ds, as they also have a defibrillator function.
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Examples would be the keyboard, disk drive, or television monitor (also called CRT, or Cathode Ray Tube).
The Apple II History, by Steven Weyhrich : The Apple II 1991
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And it's also an important innovation in CRT, which is cardiac rhythm therapy, and expands a multibillion-dollar market opportunity to them.
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